Building APIs with Django in 2026

I had the pleasure of being invited to hold a session at the PyLadies conference in Kampala Uganda. It was an amazing session where I introduced the attendees (mostly ladies) to the world of building APIs with Django and Django Rest Framework. We covered a lot of ground, from the basics of Django to some more advanced concepts of building APIs.

THe following is the documentation I built for the session:

• Introduction
• Project Set Up
• Your first API endpoint
• Building a CRUD API
• Class Based Views
• Pagination, Filtering, and Throttling
• Authentication
• API Integration