Proper way to consume data from RESTFUL API in django

Question

I\'m trying to learn django so while I have a current solution I\'m not sure if it follows best practices in django. I would like to display information from a web api on my

Answer 1

Well, there are several things to keep in mind. First of all, in this case your data is not changing so often. So it is a good practice to cache this kind of responces. There are a lot of caching tools around, but redis is a popular option. Alternatevly, you can choose additional NoSQL database just for caching.

Secondly, what is the purpose of displaying this data? Are you expecting your users to interact with books or authors, etc? If it is just an information, there is no need in forms and models. If not, you must provide proper views, forms and models for both books and authors, etc.

And considering the place where you should call an API request, I would say it dependes heavily on the second question. Choices are:

• views.py for just displaying data.
• forms.py or still views.py for ineractivity.