Developing a mobile app with Ionic as the frontend and Django as the backend

Question

I am developing a mobile app which is using Ionic (AngularJS) as the frontend and Django as the backend. I wanted to know if it is possible to use Django to expose data as a JSON web API that my app will consume through $http services. If so, how would I go about doing it?

Answer 1

I'm doing exactly the same so YES that works nicely!

Have a look at:

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/

It will provide you with a flexible REST framework to serve your data.

On the angularjs side, I personally would use $resource instead of $http as the promises are more flexible in my opinion. Especially the chaining using $q.all() can be very useful.

Once you get to the authorization of users, have a look here:

Authorization header in AngularJS not working

on some tips on how to get django rest talking with our app.

Answer 2

Have a look at this video for a great intro into using Django with Django Rest Framework and Angular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDjoTt3r8A

Sample app mentioned in video can be found here:

https://github.com/TrackMaven/Djangular