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| author | Tom Christie | 2012-10-30 14:32:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Christie | 2012-10-30 14:32:31 +0000 |
| commit | 9b30dab4f772f67a626e176dc4fae0a3ef9c2c81 (patch) | |
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| parent | 7e5b1501b5cede61a9391fb1a751d2ebcdb37031 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/docs/howto/alternativeframeworks.rst b/docs/howto/alternativeframeworks.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 0f668335..00000000 --- a/docs/howto/alternativeframeworks.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -Alternative frameworks & Why Django REST framework -================================================== - -Alternative frameworks ----------------------- - -There are a number of alternative REST frameworks for Django: - -* `django-piston <https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home>`_ is very mature, and has a large community behind it. This project was originally based on piston code in parts. -* `django-tastypie <https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie>`_ is also very good, and has a very active and helpful developer community and maintainers. -* Other interesting projects include `dagny <https://github.com/zacharyvoase/dagny>`_ and `dj-webmachine <http://benoitc.github.com/dj-webmachine/>`_ - - -Why use Django REST framework? ------------------------------- - -The big benefits of using Django REST framework come down to: - -1. It's based on Django's class based views, which makes it simple, modular, and future-proof. -2. It stays as close as possible to Django idioms and language throughout. -3. The browse-able API makes working with the APIs extremely quick and easy. - - -Why was this project created? ------------------------------ - -For me the browse-able API is the most important aspect of Django REST framework. - -I wanted to show that Web APIs could easily be made Web browse-able, -and demonstrate how much better browse-able Web APIs are to work with. - -Being able to navigate and use a Web API directly in the browser is a huge win over only having command line and programmatic -access to the API. It enables the API to be properly self-describing, and it makes it much much quicker and easier to work with. -There's no fundamental reason why the Web APIs we're creating shouldn't be able to render to HTML as well as JSON/XML/whatever, -and I really think that more Web API frameworks *in whatever language* ought to be taking a similar approach. |
