The Importance of Django REST for APIs

The HTTP verbs correspond to the methods of CRUD as normally understood. Django REST framework really just kind of magically transforms your site into an API, but it's doing that largely through the serializer. So instead of sending a web page back and forth, it will send just data typically in the form of JSON. And so once you start building APIs, you will get that. Even with traditional Django, a lot of that is handled for you.