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#### DRF Docs
[DRF Docs][drfdocs-repo] allows you to Document Web APIs made with Django Rest Framework. It's made to work out of the box and its setup should not take more than a couple of minutes. Complete documentation can be found on the [website][drfdocs-website] while there is also an available [demo][drfdocs-demo] for people to see what it looks like.
Features include customizing the template with your branding and settings for hiding the docs depending on the environment.
![Screenshot - DRF docs][image-drf-docs]
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#### Django REST Swagger
#### Django REST Swagger
Marc Gibbons' [Django REST Swagger][django-rest-swagger] integrates REST framework with the [Swagger][swagger] API documentation tool. The package produces well presented API documentation, and includes interactive tools for testing API endpoints.
Marc Gibbons' [Django REST Swagger][django-rest-swagger] integrates REST framework with the [Swagger][swagger] API documentation tool. The package produces well presented API documentation, and includes interactive tools for testing API endpoints.
The package is fully documented, well supported, and comes highly recommended.
Django REST Swagger supports REST framework versions 2.3 and above.
Django REST Swagger supports REST framework versions 2.3 and above.
Mark is also the author of the [REST Framework Docs][rest-framework-docs] package is which offers clean, simple autogenerated documentation for your API but is depracated and has moved to Django REST Swagger.
The [REST Framework Docs][rest-framework-docs] package is an earlier project, also by Marc Gibbons, that offers clean, simple autogenerated documentation for your API.
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To implement a hypermedia API you'll need to decide on an appropriate media type for the API, and implement a custom renderer and parser for that media type. The [REST, Hypermedia & HATEOAS][hypermedia-docs] section of the documentation includes pointers to background reading, as well as links to various hypermedia formats.
To implement a hypermedia API you'll need to decide on an appropriate media type for the API, and implement a custom renderer and parser for that media type. The [REST, Hypermedia & HATEOAS][hypermedia-docs] section of the documentation includes pointers to background reading, as well as links to various hypermedia formats.
