For making a DRF project we ll follow: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart/

Start by making the project as in DRF docs: mkdir django-rest-swagger-docs

cd django-rest-swagger-docs

Make Virtual Environment with python3 and activate it: virtualenv env --python=python3

source ./env/bin/activate

pip install django

pip install djangorestframework

Make project named 'demo' in current directory:

django-admin startproject demo .

cd demo

Make two apps inside 'demo' project, 'cbv-demo' for class based views and fbv-demo for function based view:

django-admin startapp cbv_demo

django-admin startapp fbv_demo

Get back to main project directory:

cd ..

Now sync database and create database user:

python manage.py migrate python manage.py createsuperuser

Now making a class based view as:

Make a simple serializer at demo/cbv_demo/serializers.py with code below:

Make a simple view at demo/cbv_demo/views.py with code below: