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DRF is open-source (BSD license)

Commercial consulting and development opportunities

Enterprise APIs benefit from rapid Python development

Integrates with monitoring, caching, and async tasks

Reduces development cost for Python-based teams

Better async support with Django async views

Improved documentation and examples

Extended third-party integrations (JWT, OAuth2)

Enhanced support for GraphQL via integrations

Performance optimizations for high-load APIs

For extremely high-performance, low-latency APIs

Projects not using Python or Django

Tiny microservices where Flask/FastAPI may be simpler

Applications requiring heavy real-time processing without Channels

Rapid prototyping with lightweight frameworks

DRF is a high-level Python toolkit for building Web APIs.

Supports serialization, authentication, filtering, and viewsets.

Integrates tightly with Django ORM and ecosystem.

Enables rapid, maintainable, and secure API development.

Widely used in web, mobile, and third-party API backends.

Is DRF open-source? -> Yes, BSD license.

Can DRF work with async views? -> Limited, Django async support required.

Does DRF support JWT authentication? -> Yes, via extensions.

Is browsable API available? -> Yes, for testing and exploration.

How to debug DRF serializers? -> Use `.is_valid()` and check `.errors`.