drf-inspector 0.1.2

A comprehensive Django app that provides visualization and analysis of your DRF backend.

DRF Inspector

DRF Inspector is a powerful developer tool for analyzing, visualizing, and understanding Django REST Framework (DRF) backends.

It automatically inspects your project architecture and provides interactive visualizations for:

• API endpoints
• serializers
• models
• relationships
• views
• query optimization
• security analysis
• architecture exporting

DRF Inspector helps developers debug, document, optimize, and better understand complex DRF projects.

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✨ Features

🌐 API & URL Analysis

• Inspect all DRF endpoints automatically
• Detect HTTP methods (GET, POST, PATCH, etc.)
• View connected views and serializers
• Search and filter endpoints

🧠 Model Visualization

• Auto-generate model relationship graphs
• Visualize:
  • ForeignKey
  • ManyToManyField
  • OneToOneField
• Interactive relationship mapping

🔍 Serializer Inspection

• Detect serializers used in views
• Inspect serializer fields
• Detect nested serializers
• Show serializer → model mappings

🧭 View Analysis

• Analyze:
  • authentication classes
  • permission classes
  • pagination
  • throttling
  • filtering
• Supports DRF class-based views and ViewSets

🔒 Security Audit

• Detect endpoints missing:
  • authentication
  • permissions
  • throttling
• Helps identify insecure API routes

⚡ Query Optimization Detection

• Detect possible N+1 query issues
• Suggest:
  • select_related
  • prefetch_related
• Analyze queryset optimization opportunities

📦 Exporting

Export project architecture as:

• JSON
• Markdown

Useful for:

• documentation
• architecture reviews
• team sharing
• AI context sharing

🖥️ Interactive Dashboard

• Built directly into Django
• No React required
• No external frontend setup
• Works instantly inside your project

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📸 Screenshots

Dashboard

URL Explorer

Model Relationships

Serializer Inspector

Query Optimization

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⚡ Installation

Step 1: Install the package

pip install drf-inspector==0.12

Step 2: Add in settings.py:

installed_apps = [
  drf_inspector,
   ....
]

Step 3: Add in project urls.py:

from django.urls import path, include
urlpatterns = [
  ...,
  path("drf-inspector/",include("drf_inspector.urls")),
]

Final Step : Go to the url and that's it:

   http://127.0.0.1:8000/drf-inspector/