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Django Shinobi - Fast Django REST Framework

Documentation

Django Shinobi is a web framework for building APIs with Django and Python 3.6+ type hints.

It's a fork of the fantastic Django Ninja library focused on community-desired features and fixes. Check out the list of differences if you're coming from Ninja, as well as the roadmap!

Key features:

• Easy: Designed to be easy to use and intuitive.
• FAST execution: Very high performance thanks to Pydantic and async support.
• Fast to code: Type hints and automatic docs lets you focus only on business logic.
• Standards-based: Based on the open standards for APIs: OpenAPI (previously known as Swagger) and JSON Schema.
• Django friendly: (obviously) has good integration with the Django core and ORM.
• Production ready: The original Ninja project is used by multiple companies on live projects.

Documentation: https://pmdevita.github.io/django-shinobi

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Installation

In your Django project, add Django Shinobi.

pip install django-shinobi

or start a new project.

pip install django django-shinobi
django-admin startproject apidemo

Usage

In your Django project, next to urls.py, create a new file called api.py.

from ninja import NinjaAPI
api = NinjaAPI()

@api.get("/add")
def add(request, a: int, b: int):
    return {"result": a + b}

Now go to urls.py and add the following:

``Python hl_lines="3 7" ... from .api import api

urlpatterns = [ path("admin/", admin.site.urls), path("api/", api.urls), # <---------- ! ]

That's it !
Now you've just created an API that:
receives an HTTP GET request at /api/add

 
takes, validates and type-casts GET parameters a and b

 
decodes the result to JSON
 
generates an OpenAPI schema for defined operation
Interactive API docs
Run your Django project

shell python manage.py runsever ``

Now go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/docs

You will see the automatic interactive API documentation (provided by Swagger UI or Redoc):

What next?

• Read the full documentation here - https://pmdevita.github.io/django-shinobi
• To support this project, please give star it on Github.
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• Share your feedback and discuss development on Discord https://discord.gg/ntFTXu7NNv

--- Tranlated By Open Ai Tx | Last indexed: 2026-04-13 ---