Remove rest_framework from package dependencies #586
Description
Description
As part of #565, I was auditing the requirements and found out that DRF was used!
DRF is probably the largest API framework out there for Django, and we don't even have an API!
Diving into the code, it seems like meetups/views.py ApiForVmsView just uses one single class APIView, which just sends out JSON data based on some request params. Nothing some good ol' Django can't do! There's no point of using such a large package to implement something so trivial.
Removing this should be fairly easy.
The second thing to look for how it's used in VMS, and whether we need it at all.
Estimation
12 hours
I'd be interested in mentoring someone formally since this is relatively easy. Please ping me on Zulip if you are relatively new here and you want to get started with your first PR!