Harald Nezbeda

Building better APIs: from Django to client libraries with OpenAPI

Aug. 13, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

tl;dr A summary of resources and learnings related to building REST API I put together over the last couple of years. Complete API development workflow from Django backend to frontend clients using Django REST Framework, drf-spectacular for OpenAPI spec generation, and automated client generation with openapi-generator. Big productivity boost! There is a lot of discussion about frameworks for building REST APIs, some of them being even able to generate OpenAPI specs directly for you. Django i…