[westurner]

This launches the web-based Werkzeug debugger on Exception:

  pip install django-extensions
  python manage.py runserver_plus

https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/runserver...

This should run IPython Notebook with database models already imported :

  python manage.py shell_plus --notebook

But writing fixtures, tests and (celery / dask-labextension) tasks is probably the better way to do things. Django-rest-assured is one way to get a tested REST API with DRF and e.g. factory_boy for generating test data.