Django Ninja

#1

Post by radus » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 6:39 PM UTC

Re: Django Ninja

#2

Post by radus » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 6:42 PM UTC

I'm looking into adding some sort of REST API layer to a Django app and I've been reading some negative things about Django Rest Framework (DRF), which is the default choice for this functionality in Django-world. This project is inspired by FastAPI and is potentially a lighter weight alternative to DRF and I'm wondering if HNers have experience with it and/or DRF.

My hunch is that it's probably better to stay with the Django way of doing things (DRF), in spite of the online chatter calling it bloated.

Re: Django Ninja

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Post by vital1k » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 12:42 PM UTC

radus wrote: post #2

I'm looking into adding some sort of REST API layer to a Django app and I've been reading some negative things about Django Rest Framework (DRF), which is the default choice for this functionality in Django-world. This project is inspired by FastAPI and is potentially a lighter weight alternative to DRF and I'm wondering if HNers have experience with it and/or DRF. My hunch is that it's probably better to stay with t…

Hello, I'm the author

so at this moment the project is slowly growing (about 10+ companies I know are starting to adopt it )

Main benefits are - OpenAPI spec oriented - lightweigh and 0 intrusion to django-core (basically django-ninja is just a validation/documentation layer for django views) - high performance (some cases can be 2x-100x faster with than DRF)

Re: Django Ninja

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Post by radus » Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 7:57 PM UTC

vital1k wrote: post #3

radus wrote: post #2

I'm looking into adding some sort of REST API layer to a Django app and I've been reading some negative things about Django Rest Framework (DRF), which is the default choice for this functionality in Django-world. This project is inspired by FastAPI and is potentially a lighter weight alternative to DRF and I'm wondering if HNers have experience with it and/or DRF. My hunch is that it's probably better to stay with t…

Hello, I'm the author so at this moment the project is slowly growing (about 10+ companies I know are starting to adopt it ) Main benefits are - OpenAPI spec oriented - lightweigh and 0 intrusion to django-core (basically django-ninja is just a validation/documentation layer for django views) - high performance (some cases can be 2x-100x faster with than DRF)

Thank you for the reply!