Introduction to Serializers in the Django REST Framework

Everything I learned about Serializers in one of my recent projects

Probably one of the most important features in Django, Serializers are a massive help when trying to present data in a format for the Front-end to understand. JSON is the name of the game and if you know how to quickly “jsonify” the Front-ends requested data, you just leveled up your speed of development. So let's get started.

For this article, I will be going through an example that will summarize all that I learned.

So let's say, I have a model which looks like this

The first thing would be to create a “serializers.py” file which will host our “ModelSerializers”. Let’s give that a look

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