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Django REST Framework patterns

Name: drf-patterns
Author: ku5ic

DRF 3.18.x. Supports Django 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1; 3.18.0 dropped Django 4.2, 5.0, and 5.1. Verify current version at https://pypi.org/project/djangorestframework/. Adapt advice to the version in the project's requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, or lockfile.

Reference files

File	Covers
serializers.md	Explicit fields, validate(), nested serializers, SerializerMethodField, ModelSerializer
viewsets-and-routers.md	ModelViewSet vs GenericViewSet + mixins, @action, DefaultRouter
permissions.md	permission_classes, IsAuthenticated vs IsAuthenticatedOrReadOnly, object-level permissions
throttling-and-pagination.md	UserRateThrottle, AnonRateThrottle, pagination styles, page size config
filtering.md	django-filter, SearchFilter, OrderingFilter, get_queryset override
auth.md	TokenAuthentication, SessionAuthentication, JWT via simplejwt
versioning.md	Versioning schemes, request.version, ALLOWED_VERSIONS
anti-patterns.md	Severity-labeled anti-patterns to flag in review

References

Version notes

Checked: 2026-09-12 against https://pypi.org/project/djangorestframework/ and https://www.django-rest-framework.org/community/release-notes/

3.18.1 (2026-09-07): 3.18.0 dropped Django 4.2, 5.0, 5.1. A project pinned to one of those stays on 3.17.
3.14: NullBooleanField removed; use BooleanField(allow_null=True).
3.5: ModelSerializer without fields or exclude became an error (deprecated since 3.3).

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