vitalik/django-ninja

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9175 stars · 610 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Django Ninja is a web framework for building REST APIs with Django using Python type hints, powered by Pydantic for validation and serialization. It automatically generates OpenAPI/Swagger documentation and supports async handlers with high performance.

Use cases

• build a REST API on top of an existing Django project
• auto-generate OpenAPI/Swagger docs for Django endpoints
• validate and type-cast request parameters with Python type hints
• add async API endpoints to Django
• replace Django REST Framework with a faster, simpler alternative
• expose Django ORM models through a JSON API

When to choose

• you already use Django and want fast, type-hint-based API development
• you want automatic interactive API documentation with minimal setup
• you need high-performance JSON APIs with Pydantic validation
• you want tight integration with Django's ORM and auth

When to avoid

• you are building a non-Django Python API (consider FastAPI)
• you need Django REST Framework's serializer/browsable-API ecosystem
• your project has no Django dependency and you want a standalone framework

Facets

framework · maturity stable

web-framework api-framework api-documentation serialization routing web-development backend apis python cross-platform django rest-api openapi pydantic type-hints async swagger-ui python web-server

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