Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by pythonbull » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 5:05 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by tedmiston » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 6:09 PM UTC

I've built a couple dozen projects in Django, mostly closed source or for private companies. It's a really powerful framework for web apps, APIs (with DRF), and the ORM is very quick to get a prototype running as well. Django is awesome.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by wayn3 » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

Nothing. Its just as much of a turd as Rails is. Using flask instead for simple apps.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by DrkSephy » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

A while back I created the Django Hackathon Starter [1] which was aimed to be a general boilerplate providing several out-of-the box OAuth hooks and API examples. It hasn't been updated recently, but was a pretty fun project to work on at the time.

[1] https://github.com/DrkSephy/django-hackathon-starter

Re: Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by stefantalpalaru » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 6:16 PM UTC

https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/4zpg1p/whats_your_s...

Re: Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by s_kilk » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 7:01 PM UTC

Not something I created from scratch, but I had the chance to work on a very large Django codebase at TVSquared.

We ended up taking out most of stock Django and only using the router and controller functions.

Re: Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by Yxven » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

wayn3 wrote: post #3

Nothing. Its just as much of a turd as Rails is. Using flask instead for simple apps.

Would you be more specific as to why you prefer flask to django?

I looked at flask, and the code for views doesn't look much different. It does look like it's missing form and model validation. Do you use a library for that or do you not do that?

Re: Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by Yxven » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

s_kilk wrote: post #6

Not something I created from scratch, but I had the chance to work on a very large Django codebase at TVSquared. We ended up taking out most of stock Django and only using the router and controller functions.

Why did you do that, and what did you replace stock django with?

Re: Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by admtal » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 7:44 PM UTC

I built a dating site with django.

It's no longer maintained, and most likely not functioning, but still running on Heroku. (tangerine.herokuapp.com)

Here is what it looked like : http://imgur.com/a/aOgf1

Re: Ask HN: What did you make in Django?

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Post by danialtz » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 8:32 PM UTC

We built a multi-lingual platform on top of Django (e.g. https://www.caremondo.com/en/orthopaedics/ being the main app), which was recently acquired. Apart from form-handling facepalms, the rest has been quite a breeze.