Hey folks, is there anyone experienced in django? I am new to the framework and I am trying to make simple REST apis using django rest framework. I am confused between functional, class views and using APIView vs ModelViewsets. I can’t find a good reference that explains setting these up for a simple project that has few foreign keys in the models. I would love if someone can chat/point to a good reference on this.

DRF documentation is the way to go. https://www.django-rest-framework.org/

APIView is a generic view ModelView is when you have a model and you want CRUD for that while writing only some parts of it ModelView inherits from the APIView DRF docs are the best place to start

Thanks! I was able to get it going. Where I was stuck --- I had a foreign key in a model and I wanted my Class based viewset to allow POST request with only valid foreign keys (keys that are already present in refrenced model).

wanted my Class based viewset to allow POST request with only valid foreign keys

Model Serializers can help you with this. https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/relations/#the-queryset-argument