how to keep the front end and back end models in sync?

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  • drf-spectacular

    Sane and flexible OpenAPI 3 schema generation for Django REST framework.

    Here is your answer: drf_spectacular

  • openapi-generator

    OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

    Unless you are trying to build some kind of offline mode, all your frontend should know about the backend is the response schema. You could feed an OpenAPI spec to something like https://openapi-generator.tech/ and generate a Dart client. Then, whenever some endpoint changes you will have to regenerate the client. Bonus points for doing API versioning.

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