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What's the preferred Python Web Framework these days? I've read a lot of love for Litestar (formerly Starlite), since it seems people prefer it over FastAPI, Flask, etc. https://litestar.dev Or is the preferred web framework still Django?
Not a lot of whizbang features in 5.0, but GeneratedField looks like a very nice addition, and reason enough to migrate.
I am never able to find any good example projects that use it with react and aren't just a toy which is bit of a bummer, because I think that would be a great stack.
Django Ninja makes it especially pleasant.
I think django should really embrace this in the future. Make it easier to drop the superfluous parts; forms, templates …
I don’t know what that will look like but I don’t see a way back.
My app is a Django backend and a Vue frontend. There are large swathes of Django that I ignore, but to me the core of Django — its ORM, routing and middleware system, and admin interface — are worth their weight in gold. The migration from DRF to Django-Ninja (which is, roughly, FastAPI + Django) has also been a great improvement in terms of productivity and performance. Not a lot of whizbang features in 5.0, but Gen…
Django + REST framework takes a little more to learn than something like FastAPI, but once you understand how all the middleware, permission and query classes work, you can be hyper productive
My app is a Django backend and a Vue frontend. There are large swathes of Django that I ignore, but to me the core of Django — its ORM, routing and middleware system, and admin interface — are worth their weight in gold. The migration from DRF to Django-Ninja (which is, roughly, FastAPI + Django) has also been a great improvement in terms of productivity and performance. Not a lot of whizbang features in 5.0, but Gen…
Sadly I don't use Django anymore at work but it still has a special place in my heart. The ORM model is the best I've ever worked with and any other always feels clunky with sharp edges to cut you when you hold it wrong. In recent years Django had multiple major releases, I still remember it as being in 1.x forever. Does somebody know what changed within the Django Community that they break backward compatibility mor…
> The ORM model is the best I've ever worked with and any other always feels clunky with sharp edges to cut you when you hold it wrong. Idk. I have to grant that Django ORM likes to make your life easy, but lazy loading on property calls is a dark pit full of shap punji sticks. Just overlook one instance where this is happening in a loop and say goodbye to performance and hello to timeouts left and right...
But I have no idea if there are database interfaces that make this problem simplistic. In my experience with Django, anything but the most simplistic page will be so noticeable slow that one has to go through the queries and use things like select related. Occasionally it is also better to just grab everything into memory and do operations in Python, rather than force the data manipulation to be done as a single database query.
It is a good tool for its purpose, but it is no replacement for SQL knowledge when working with complex relational databases.
Django seems great but also incredibly complex. I am never able to find any good example projects that use it with react and aren't just a toy which is bit of a bummer, because I think that would be a great stack.
What's the preferred Python Web Framework these days? I've read a lot of love for Litestar (formerly Starlite), since it seems people prefer it over FastAPI, Flask, etc. https://litestar.dev Or is the preferred web framework still Django?
I've always felt, and this hasn't changed recently, that if you're going to need more than, say, 3 of the cross cutting concerns that Django provides for, then it'll be much more maintainable in the long run to just use Django rather than effectively building a custom solution out of parts. The flip side: if you're building a small internal API that only needs a couple of these, Django might be overkill. What do I me…