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DefaultRouter adds a public API root and trailing‑slash redirects that can leak endpoints and add latency. SimpleRouter removes both while keeping the same ViewSet‑to‑route mapping. This post shows how to swap routers, verify the generated URLs, and decide which trade‑offs fit your production API.
Read the Docs supports project-level redirects configured in the dashboard, including exact-path and wildcard entries that map old documentation URLs to new versions or external targets. A documented gap is the evaluation order when several redirect rules could match the same incoming request path. The uncertainty is whether rules are processed sequentially
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