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Asked: 2026-05-30T13:47:50+00:00

I have a Django web front-end that consumes data from a REST API backend.

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I have a Django web front-end that consumes data from a REST API backend.
Even the users are made and created on the backend.

My Problem :

  • How to use 3rd party apps within this system, that heavily depend on django models/ORM ?
  • Is there something that can provide some bridge between the REST API resources and the ORM?

How can this problem be dealt with ?

Update

DRY principal seems to be failing in this situation.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure I completely understand your question or requirements. The way I am reading it, you have a primary back-end which is basically a black-box, and you want to use some 3rd-party apps in your project which use the Django ORM.

    I am unclear as to why there would be a need for being able to have a two-way synchronization between the two data-stores. The users of your project would be returned data from your primary back-end, and from the project’s ORM.

    Since you are concerned about saving the “ORM” data in your primary back-end, maybe you would consider creating a Transaction Middleware that would fire any time ORM data gets updated, which could serialize the structure being saved and transmit it to your REST API. This REST API, I assume, is able to accept arbitrary data structures?

    You’ll probably at least want to use some form of middleware, and maybe a utility module/class to help form the “bridge”.

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