Modern REST framework for Django with types and async support!

Features

• Blazingly fast
• Supports async Django without any sync_to_async / async_to_sync calls inside, tested to work with free-threading builds
• Supports pydantic2, msgspec, attrs, dataclasses, TypedDict as model schemas, but not bound to any of these libraries
• Fully typed and checked with mypy, pyright, ty, and pyrefly in strict modes
• Supports content negotiation, has default implementations for json, msgpack, SSE, Json Lines, and more
• Strict schema validation of both requests and responses, including errors
• Supports OpenAPI 3.1 / 3.2 semantic schema generation out of the box
• Supports all your existing django primitives and packages, no custom runtimes
• Great testing tools with schemathesis, polyfactory, tracecov, bundled pytest plugin, and default Django's testing primitives
• 100% test coverage with 4000+ of carefully designed unit, integration, typing, and property-based tests on different databases and caches
• High security standards
• Built by the community for the community, not a single-person project
• Great docs
• No AI slop, but built for the LLM era
• No emojis 🌚️️

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Sync mode

Testimonials

The one thing I really love about django-modern-rest is its pluggable serializers and validators. Frameworks that are tightly coupled with pydantic can be really painful to work with.

— Kirill Podoprigora, CPython core developer

Using django-modern-rest has been a game-changer for my productivity. The strict type safety and schema validation for both requests and responses mean I spend less time debugging and more time building.

— Josiah Kaviani, Django core developer

I rarely see frameworks that treat their OpenAPI schema as a first-class citizen. django-modern-rest not only generates a schema that accurately reflects your code, but also gives you the tools to verify it.

— Dmitry Dygalo, author of Schemathesis

Installation

Works for:

• CPython 3.11+ or PyPy 3.11+
• Django 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1

pip install django-modern-rest

There are several included extras:

• 'django-modern-rest[msgspec]' provides msgspec support and the fastest json parsing, recommended to be always included
• 'django-modern-rest[pydantic]' provides pydantic support
• 'django-modern-rest[attrs]' provides attrs support
• 'django-modern-rest[jwt]' provides pyjwt auth support
• 'django-modern-rest[openapi]' provides OpenAPI schema validation, yaml OpenAPI view, and generates better OpenAPI examples with polyfactory

Example

The shortest example (click here to copy the whole file):

>>> import uuid
>>> import pydantic
>>> from dmr import Body, Controller, Headers
>>> # Or use `dmr.plugins.msgspec` or write your own!
>>> from dmr.plugins.pydantic import PydanticFastSerializer

>>> class UserCreateModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
...     email: str

>>> class UserModel(UserCreateModel):
...     uid: uuid.UUID
...     consumer: str

>>> class HeaderModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
...     consumer: str = pydantic.Field(alias='X-API-Consumer')

>>> class UserController(Controller[PydanticFastSerializer]):
...     async def post(  # <- can be sync as well!
...         self,
...         parsed_body: Body[UserCreateModel],
...         parsed_headers: Headers[HeaderModel],
...     ) -> UserModel:
...         """All added props have the correct runtime and static types."""
...         return UserModel(
...             uid=uuid.uuid4(),
...             email=parsed_body.email,
...             consumer=parsed_headers.consumer,
...         )

And then route this controller in your urls.py:

>>> from django.urls import path
>>> from dmr.routing import Router

>>> router = Router(
...     'api/',
...     [
...         path('user/', UserController.as_view(), name='users'),
...     ],
... )
>>> urlpatterns = [
...     router.to_urlpatterns(namespace='api'),
... ]

Done! Now you have your shiny API with 100% type safe validation and interactive docs.

Next steps:

• The full documentation has everything you need to get started!
• wemake-django-template can be used to jump-start your new project with django-modern-rest!
• awesome-django-modern-rest - a curated list of resources related to django-modern-rest!

Contributors

License

MIT

Credits

This project was generated with wemake-python-package. Current template version is: e1fcf312d7f715323dcff0d376a40b7e3b47f9b7. See what is updated since then.