1. Add 'rest_framework' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'rest_framework',
]

2. If you're intending to use the browsable API you'll probably also want
to add REST framework's login and logout views. Add the following to your
root urls.py file.

# don’t forget to import include on the url file

# from django.urls import include

urlpatterns = [
...
path('api-auth/', include(‘rest_framework.urls')),
]

3. Let’s take a look at a quick example of using REST framework to build a

simple model-backed API.
We'll create a read-write API for accessing information on the users of our
project.
Any global settings for a REST framework API are kept in a single
configuration dictionary named REST_FRAMEWORK. Start off by adding the
following to your settings.py module:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
# Use Django's standard `django.contrib.auth` permissions,
# or allow read-only access for unauthenticated users.
'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': [
'rest_framework.permissions.DjangoModelPermissionsOrAnonReadOnly'
]
}

4. Create a folder named api on your app

> then initialise the folder by creating __init__.py file

5. Then create a file named serializers.py file on the api folder.

from rest_framework import serializers

from articles.models import Article

class ArticleSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Article
fields = '__all__'

6. Create views.py file on api folder

from rest_frameworks.generics import ListAPIView

From articles.models import Article
From .serializers import ArticelSerialzer

class ArticelListView(listAPIView)
queryset = Article.objects.all()
serializer_class = ArticleSerializer

class ArticleDetailView(RetrieveAPIView):
 queryset = Article.objects.all()
serializer_class = ArticleSerializer

7. Create urls.py file on api folder

from django.urls import path

from .views import AritleListView, ArticleDetailView

urlpatterns = [
path(‘’,AritleListView.as_view()),
path(‘<pk>’, ArticleDetailView())
]

8. On main url file

Add the following

urlpatterns = [
…
path(‘api/‘, include(‘articles.api.urls))
]