Django Ninja Has a Free API You're Not Using

Django Ninja is a FastAPI-inspired web framework for Django that adds automatic OpenAPI docs, async support, and type-safe request handling. If you're still writing Django REST Framework serializers, you're working too hard. Why Django Ninja? Django Ninja gives you FastAPI's developer experience inside Django's battle-tested ecosystem. Same ORM, same admin, same middleware — but with modern API design. The Free APIs You're Missing 1. Type-Safe Request Handling with Pydantic from ninja import NinjaAPI , Schema from datetime import date api = NinjaAPI () class UserIn ( Schema ): name : str email : str age : int = None class UserOut ( Schema ): id : int name : str email : str @api.post ( " /users " , response = UserOut ) def create_user ( request , data : UserIn ): user = User . objects . create ( ** data . dict ()) return user Automatic validation, serialization, and OpenAPI documentation. No serializer classes needed. 2. Async Views — Native async/await import httpx from ninja import Ni