Modern REST framework for Django with types and async support!
Features
- Blazingly fast
- Supports
django>=5.0 - Supports
pydantic2,msgspec,attrs,dataclasses,TypedDictas model schemas, but not bound to any of these libraries - Supports async Django without any
sync_to_asynccalls inside, tested to work with free-threading builds - Fully typed and checked with
mypy,pyright, andpyreflyin 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
djangoprimitives and packages, no custom runtimes - Great testing tools with schemathesis, polyfactory, tracecov, bundled
pytestplugin, and default Django's testing primitives - 100% test coverage with 2000+ of carefully designed unit, integration, and property-based tests
- 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 🌚️️
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-resthas 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-restnot 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+
pip install django-modern-rest
There are several included extras:
'django-modern-rest[msgspec]'providesmsgspecsupport and the fastest json parsing, recommended to be always included'django-modern-rest[pydantic]'providespydanticsupport'django-modern-rest[attrs]'providesattrssupport'django-modern-rest[jwt]'providespyjwtauth support'django-modern-rest[openapi]'providesOpenAPIschema validation,yamlOpenAPI view, and generates better OpenAPI examples withpolyfactory
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 include, path >>> from dmr.routing import Router >>> router = Router( ... 'api/', ... [ ... path('user/', UserController.as_view(), name='users'), ... ], ... ) >>> urlpatterns = [ ... path(router.prefix, include((router.urls, 'my_app'), 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!
License
Credits
This project was generated with wemake-python-package. Current template version is: e1fcf312d7f715323dcff0d376a40b7e3b47f9b7. See what is updated since then.