Django rest framework tutorial 1. Create a new project django-admin startproject core . 2. Create a new app python manage.py startapp api 3. Add the app to the project # tutorial/settings.py INSTALLED_APPS = [ ... 'quickstart', ] 4. Create a view # quickstart/views.py from rest_framework.decorators import api_view from rest_framework.response import Response @api_view(['GET']) def hello_world(request): return Response({'message': 'Hello, World!'}) 5. Create a URL # quickstart/urls.py from django.urls import path from .views import index urlpatterns = [ path('index', index), ]