[2020] Should one use ViewSets and Generic Views with DRF

Something I really love about Django is that you don’t need to understand everything it’s doing to get started and feel like it’s useful. DRF isn’t like that.

DRF is one of those frameworks that’s hard to use unless you really understand every part of it. While what you’re doing isn’t wrong, you’re leaving a lot on the table, and it’s likely because you don’t know everything it can do.

I went through this with DRF. It wasn’t until I dedicated some time with the documentation to really understand how DRF approached things that I got over it. Don’t know if that’s what’s blocking you or not, but maybe it helps.