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Re: Django 3.2

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

godmode2019 wrote: post #4

I'm more if a flask man myself. Worked with django only when I had to. Maybe I'm wrong?

Right tool for the right job. You’re not wrong unless you are - if as others said you’re reinventing the wheel on flask, or are doing a very simple API service in Django which doesn’t use most of its facilities (like the admin) and could easily be done in flask.

Re: Django 3.2

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Post by danjac »

godmode2019 wrote: post #4

I'm more if a flask man myself. Worked with django only when I had to. Maybe I'm wrong?

Depends what you want to do, and why you're doing it. Very often when I make something in Flask, I end up with so many dependencies it might as well be Django (but without the cohesion). On the other hand, Django might be overkill in some situations (e.g. a small API without a relational database backend).

Re: Django 3.2

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Post by mrweasel »

godmode2019 wrote: post #4

I'm more if a flask man myself. Worked with django only when I had to. Maybe I'm wrong?

I doubt you're wrong. There's certainly a large set of problem that can be solved equally well by either framework. There are also projects where one is clearly a better solution.

Re: Django 3.2

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Post by codestasis »

godmode2019 wrote: post #4

I'm more if a flask man myself. Worked with django only when I had to. Maybe I'm wrong?

I've had the opposite experience, working smoothly with Django for a decade except for one huge Flask project. Which essentially re-built Django... badly.

I later tried and enjoyed Flask for a really small solo project, so I don't think you're wrong.

Maybe there's a lot of implicit cultural knowledge on what packages work best to compliment Flask and the original developers on the big Flask project I suffered chose poorly?

Re: Django 3.2

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Post by holler »

godmode2019 wrote: post #4

I'm more if a flask man myself. Worked with django only when I had to. Maybe I'm wrong?

I owe a lot to Django as it was really the thing that got me into backend programming by leading me to learn python in early 1.X days. My first real programming job was backend django programming for a newspaper. Eventually things shifted towards django-rest-framework, flask, and now my go-to Starlette. Haven't used Django in some time but really appreciate the project and happy to see it moving along.

Re: Django 3.2

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Post by nickjj »

If anyone is curious I just updated my Docker / Django starter project to use 3.2. It uses Docker Compose + Django + Celery + PostgreSQL + Redis + Webpack + TailwindCSS and it's available at: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-django-example

As an aside it's also using TailwindCSS 2.1 with the JIT compiler enabled.

Re: Django 3.2

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Post by vagrantJin »

codestasis wrote: post #5

Congratulations to the Django project and contributors on a big LTS release. And a huge thank you for the consistently excellent framework that so many have built their web dev careers on. I'll post this as a Show HN soon, but I'll mention it now as a soft-launch introduction. After a decade of using Django I started a project I always wanted to exist: backported security and bug fixes to old versions that the Django…

> It's free for personal use and a paid subscription for businesses and organizations.

This is awesome.

Re: Django 3.2

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

pantulis wrote: post #14

Before Django the gold standard for Python web apps was Zope. What a tremendous achievement by the Django team!

Zope? Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... A long time.

I wonder of this magnificent monstrosity is still alive?

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