#API

# Topic covered
* API
* Why would we need an API?
* Types of APIs based on scope of use
* Types of APIs based on architecture
* WEB API
* What Is GraphQL? REST vs. GraphQL

# Topic covered
* REST API
* REST Architectural Constraints
* Methods of REST API

# Topic covered
* Serialization
* Serializer
* ModelSerializer
* Regular Django views
  * List View, Detail View
* Customize the serialization behavior

# Topic covered
* Request Object
* Response Object
* DRF provides two wrappers to write API views
  * Function based views - @api_view
  * Class based views - APIView
* Function based views - @api_view

# Topic covered
* Class-based Views
* APIview
* Mixins class based views
* Generic class based views

# Topic covered
* ViewSets
  * viewsets.ViewSet
  * viewsets.ModelViewSet
  * ReadOnlyModelViewSet
  * GenericViewSet
* Routers
  * SimpleRoute
  * DefaultRouter
* Trade-offs between views vs viewsets

# Topic covered
* ModelSerializer vs HyperlinkedModelSerializer
* ReadOnlyField
* PrimaryKeyRelatedField
* StringRelatedField
* SlugRelatedField
* HyperlinkedRelatedField
* HyperlinkedIdentityField
* Display related model

# Topic covered
* Authentication
  * Authentication vs Authorization
  * How authentication is determined
  * Setting the authentication scheme
* Types of Authentication
  * TokenAuthentication
  * SessionAuthentication
  * BasicAuthentication
* Permissions

# Topic covered
* TokenAuthentication
* Django-rest-auth