Django REST framework vs Guzzle: What are the differences?

Django REST framework: Web APIs for Django. Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs; Guzzle: PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services. Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services.

Django REST framework and Guzzle can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Some of the features offered by Django REST framework are:

• The Web browsable API is a huge usability win for your developers.
• Authentication policies including OAuth1a and OAuth2 out of the box.
• Serialization that supports both ORM and non-ORM data sources.

On the other hand, Guzzle provides the following key features:

• Manages things like persistent connections, represents query strings as collections, simplifies sending streaming POST requests with fields and files, and abstracts away the underlying HTTP transport layer.
• Can send both synchronous and asynchronous requests using the same interface without requiring a dependency on a specific event loop.
• Pluggable HTTP handlers allows Guzzle to integrate with any method you choose for sending HTTP requests over the wire (e.g., cURL, sockets, PHP’s stream wrapper, non-blocking event loops like React, etc.).

Django REST framework and Guzzle are both open source tools. It seems that Guzzle with 17.1K GitHub stars and 1.95K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Django REST framework with 14.6K GitHub stars and 4.33K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Django REST framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 159 company stacks & 79 developers stacks; compared to Guzzle, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.