django-upgrade VS django-rest-framework

30% of Django developers upgrade every LTS release[1]. As Django 3.2 runs out of support in April this year[2], it's worth celebrating Adam Johnson's package django-upgrade (https://github.com/adamchainz/django-upgrade) which has a set of fixers to automatically update your Django code to the version of your choice.

Curious if anyone has used 2to3 (https://docs.python.org/3/library/2to3.html) for upgrading Python code and can share their experience with it? Would you recommend?

1. https://lp.jetbrains.com/django-developer-survey-2022/

Take a look at https://github.com/adamchainz/django-upgrade

I had easy and quick upgrade from 3.2 to 4.1 using django-upgrade package. Project was pretty big, and I didn’t expect to be that easy to migrate to 4.1.

Regarding the actual Django upgrade you might want to take a look at Django Upgrade https://github.com/adamchainz/django-upgrade - a tool to automate some of the boring tedious stuff in an upgrade.

Running https://github.com/adamchainz/django-upgrade with https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade recursively will give an idea about how much work is there on Django side. Still, there may have dependency on third party libraries (both django+python). Another thing to consider is which role Django performing here, serving APIs or html views. As good test coverage is already there, you are on lucky side.

I recently upgraded one of my project to Django v4, from Django v1. The changes from Django 3 to 4 were fairly simple, just one line change in my case. The change log is extremely detailed, it was easy to upgrade. Also, I found a tool called django-upgrade which makes some changes automatically, rest I made manually.

Adam Johnson has written a nifty tool (https://github.com/adamchainz/django-upgrade) that can automatically do this for you. Even if you don't want to use the tool, the README generally outlines all the key issues you need to be aware of.

You should try the new [django-upgrade](https://github.com/adamchainz/django-upgrade) package. It claims you can either just run it or hook it into your CI. It will automatically take care of some of the heavy lifting for you.

- Django Rest Framework has no async support? https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/issues/7260

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Now, I'm converting this app into a Vue-based SPA (still powered by Django). I'm using the Django REST Framework to build the API that the SPA will interact with. (I'll be using token-based auth, via django-rest-knox. ETA: I'll actually be using djangorestframework-simplejwt.)

For the backend, we chose Python, Django Rest Framework. On the frontend, React, Redux, Saga, Sass. Let’s start with the backend, which was managed by Yegor. He writes about the server part of the project himself.

With regard to JSON API aspects of Django, have you used https://www.django-rest-framework.org/ ? I find it to be very satisfactory.

django-rest-framework and the Fetch API, or

Django REST Framework (DRF) Django REST Framework is a famous, powerful, and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs in Django. It provides a set of reusable components and tools to simplify API development, including serialization, authentication, permissions, and view sets.

I wish Django would take async more seriously. This comment gives a pretty good overview of the current situation (some points are more valid than others): https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/discussions/...

The Python ecosystem is strange. Where other dev communities will embrace new ways of doing things faster than most people can keep up — the Python community needs to be pulled kicking and screaming into the light once ever decade or so. Python 2 to 3, ~10 years.

async/await has been in Python since 2015, it feels like it's going to be another 5 years before we see people taking async seriously in the big packages. Same problem we had during the 2/3 transition. No library support, no developer support.

Thanks for helping Steve to complete his REST API, he is now partying🥳. You can get more information on how to use the Django REST framework to best way read the documentation. There are many alternatives to the Django REST framework, you can give them a try if you want,

[Django Rest Framework](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/) has the very nice idea of a [ViewSet](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/viewsets/#modelviewset) that allows really minimal code to perform all the basic CRUD actions on a model.