Depending on how complicated your API is, you may not need something as heavy as Django. This is a neat little framework if your backend doesn&#x27;t need to heavyweight:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;falconframework.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;falconframework.org&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s pretty unopinionated so you have a lot of control and there are less surprises but a lot of the nice to haves are gone as well.<p>Whatever you go with I would read this as well as the DRF  doesn&#x27;t generate proper RESTful responses on it&#x27;s own.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonapi.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonapi.org&#x2F;</a>