https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja
💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs
https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja
django django-ninja openapi pydantic python rest-api swagger swagger-ui
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💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja
- Owner: vitalik
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-05-19T08:48:53.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-15T08:47:44.000Z (about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-17T12:32:32.907Z (28 days ago)
- Topics: django, django-ninja, openapi, pydantic, python, rest-api, swagger, swagger-ui
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://django-ninja.dev
- Size: 6.17 MB
- Stars: 7,872
- Watchers: 69
- Forks: 471
- Open Issues: 383
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
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README
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# Django Ninja - Fast Django REST Framework
**Django Ninja** is a web framework for building APIs with **Django** and Python 3.6+ **type hints**.
**Key features:**
- **Easy**: Designed to be easy to use and intuitive.
- **FAST execution**: Very high performance thanks to **Pydantic** and **async support**.
- **Fast to code**: Type hints and automatic docs lets you focus only on business logic.
- **Standards-based**: Based on the open standards for APIs: **OpenAPI** (previously known as Swagger) and **JSON Schema**.
- **Django friendly**: (obviously) has good integration with the Django core and ORM.
- **Production ready**: Used by multiple companies on live projects (If you use django-ninja and would like to publish your feedback, please email [email protected]).
**Documentation**: https://django-ninja.dev
---
## Installation
```
pip install django-ninja
```
## Usage
In your django project next to urls.py create new `api.py` file:
```Python
from ninja import NinjaAPI
api = NinjaAPI()
@api.get("/add")
def add(request, a: int, b: int):
return {"result": a + b}
```
Now go to `urls.py` and add the following:
```Python hl_lines="3 7"
...
from .api import api
urlpatterns = [
path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
path("api/", api.urls), # <---------- !
]
```
**That's it !**
Now you've just created an API that:
- receives an HTTP GET request at `/api/add`
- takes, validates and type-casts GET parameters `a` and `b`
- decodes the result to JSON
- generates an OpenAPI schema for defined operation
### Interactive API docs
Now go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/docs
You will see the automatic interactive API documentation (provided by Swagger UI or Redoc):
## What next?
- Read the full documentation here - https://django-ninja.dev
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- If you already using django-ninja, please share your feedback to [email protected]