Enhance your Django Rest Framework (DRF) browsing experience with the drf-dark-shade package. This lightweight and easy-to-use extension bring a sleek dark theme to the DRF browsable API, reducing eye strain and providing a modern, visually appealing interface for developers.

1. Install drf-dark-shade package using pip or poetry

pip install drf_dark_shade

2. Add drf_dark_shade to your INSTALLED_APPS in your Django project's settings.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # other packages
    'rest_framework', # drf required
    'drf_dark_shade',
]

3. Add drf_dark_shade renderer to REST_FRAMEWORK config

REST_FRAMEWORK = {
    'DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES': (
        'rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer',
        'drf_dark_shade.renderers.DeepForestBrowsableAPIRenderer',
    )
}

To override providing templates:

1. Configure root templates dir in your django app

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        ...
        # configure root templates
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        ...
    },
]

2. Create template to override with name of the theme you want, like:
   templates/drf_dark_shade/deep-forest.html

All set! now run app and visit your API endpoint.
Enjoy Dark 🌃

Contributions are welcome!
If you encounter issues or want to add new features, feel free to open pull requests.
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