# How to create Rest API without Django Rest Framework in pure Django?

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# Introduction:

Can we build **APIs**, without **DRF (Django Rest Framework)** 🤔 ?

**DRF** is to make things easy and comes with a lot of extra functionality which we don't even use sometimes.

If your goal is to just send some **JSON** data from your ***View*** response, then you do not need to go through all that hassle of setting up **DRF**.

Without wasting any time, let’s directly jump into the code:

# Initial Steps:

Create a Django project named ***Demo***, then create a Django app named ***api*** . Let’s further write our code.

# Model:

Inside your `api/models.py` file, let’s create a `Book` model for this blog.

```python
# api/models.py

from django.db import models

class Book(models.Model) :
    book_name = models.CharField(max_length=240)
```

# Views:

Now, inside your `api/views.py`, we will create our ***View*** function to render the ***JSON*** data when requested from client side via an **API** call.

```python
# api/views.py

from django.http import JsonResponse
from api.models import Book

def all_books_view(request):
    data = Book.objects.all()
    return JsonResponse(data)

def book_view(request, book_id):
    book = Book.objects.get(book_id=book_id)
	data = {
		book id: book.book_id,
		book_name: book.book_name,
	}
	return JsonResponse(data)
```

# URLs:

We have to map our ***View*** function to the ***URLs*** inside our root `urls.py` file.

```python
# demo/urls.py (Root urls.py file)

from diango.urls import path
from api.views import all_books_view, book_view

urlpatterns=[
	path("books/all/", all_books_view, name="all_books_view"),
	path("book/<int: book_id>/", book_view, name="book_view"),
]
```

> *Your APIs are done and ready to consume.*

These are the endpoints which will return the desired results in JSON format when called from a client side.

| Path | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| /books/all/ | Will return all the books in a list. |
| /books/{ID}/ | Will return a single book as an object, for which you have to send a book ID in the URL. |

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