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marcgibbons/django-rest-swagger
Swagger Documentation Generator for Django REST Framework: deprecated
A Swagger UI integration for Django REST Framework that auto-generates OpenAPI schema from your DRF views. Officially deprecated since 2019 — the README's first sentence tells you to use drf-yasg instead. Last commit was 2020.
- The quick-start is genuinely minimal — two lines in INSTALLED_APPS and one URL pattern gets you a working Swagger UI
- Bundles compiled static assets so there's no Node build step required in your Django project
- Decent test coverage with tox matrix across multiple Python/Django versions, which was good practice for its era
- Dead project — no security patches, no compatibility fixes; it will break on modern Django and DRF versions without forks or monkey-patching
- The author's own README points you away from it before you even read the install instructions
- Relies on the older CoreAPI schema approach rather than native DRF OpenAPI 3.0 support that shipped in DRF 3.14+
- drf-spectacular has since surpassed even drf-yasg — so the recommended successor is itself no longer the best option