Your comment is being downvoted because DRF clearly does a whole lot more than just serialising the response dictionary or adding pagination, you should really

Your comment is being downvoted because DRF clearly does a whole lot more than just serialising the response dictionary or adding pagination, you should really have a look at the documentation. However, I still think that Django should have something like the "JSONResponse mixin example"[1] built-in by default; sometimes you are building a product which is not an API but you still need the occasional RESTful endpoint and, in those cases, something like DRF would be overkill. [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/class-based-views/mixins/#jsonresponsemixin-example https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/class-based-vi...