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Django has allowed me to enjoy some side entrepreneurship. I have released three products as a solo part time dev that I would never have been able to do in a reasonable time using Java/Spring (my strongest stack). My first project went nowhere, but the second generated 1k+ a month and sold for 50k, and the third one is following a similar trajectory. My advice - keep it simple - function based views - centralize acc…
Where are we on the whole Django versus Rails debate? (Not cannonfodder, I am genuinely curious)
In terms of how they "feel" to develop with? About the same. Similar ideals - skinny models, service layers, REST-first but you can make it RPC-style if you want...
Django has allowed me to enjoy some side entrepreneurship. I have released three products as a solo part time dev that I would never have been able to do in a reasonable time using Java/Spring (my strongest stack). My first project went nowhere, but the second generated 1k+ a month and sold for 50k, and the third one is following a similar trajectory. My advice - keep it simple - function based views - centralize acc…
May I ask what the projects were?
Covid screening application (sold)
Inventory management (initial clients in alcohol beverage bottling/distribution)
We went all in on FastAPI with my team, but we're hit the issue that the projects of Tiangolo (FastAPI, SQLModel, Typer) seem to be turning pretty much unmaintained : https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/discussions/3970 We've already been hit by multiple bugs with fixing PR opened, but left to rot, and missing documentation : the 'tutorial' documentation is great, but if you want a reference you have to go read the c…
I believe there's a third-party package "django-stubs" that provides type hints for Django code. For your own code, it's just Python in the end so you can type-hint it as you normally would.
> Pydantic models integration
There isn't as far as I know. Django has its own model layer however unlike Pydantic, Django's is purely for the DB level, it's not there to (de?)serialize JSON.
In the Django world you'd typically use Django Rest Framework serializers for that. Now you can use Pydantic and it probably won't be too much work to make them work with DRF, but whether it's worth it is a different matter - DRF gives you a lot of stuff for free such as auto-generating serializers based on DB models (including validation and everything) which you wouldn't get with Pydantic.
Django has allowed me to enjoy some side entrepreneurship. I have released three products as a solo part time dev that I would never have been able to do in a reasonable time using Java/Spring (my strongest stack). My first project went nowhere, but the second generated 1k+ a month and sold for 50k, and the third one is following a similar trajectory. My advice - keep it simple - function based views - centralize acc…
I had not heard the term "fat models" before so I googled it. It did not go in the direction I expected.
Django has allowed me to enjoy some side entrepreneurship. I have released three products as a solo part time dev that I would never have been able to do in a reasonable time using Java/Spring (my strongest stack). My first project went nowhere, but the second generated 1k+ a month and sold for 50k, and the third one is following a similar trajectory. My advice - keep it simple - function based views - centralize acc…
Where are we on the whole Django versus Rails debate? (Not cannonfodder, I am genuinely curious)
As someone who's used both - Rails packaging and environment maintenance has been so much less of a headache. Gems and Gemfiles and Gemfile.lock vs having to choose a Python package maintainer (Pipenv vs Poetry?) and deal with that has been worth it to me. In terms of how they "feel" to develop with? About the same. Similar ideals - skinny models, service layers, REST-first but you can make it RPC-style if you want..…
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Not to single you out, but are you or your business supporting the project (financially) in any way?
I sometimes get these almost angry emails about Gensim, my open source library. How come I'm not responding faster, merging PRs, fixing issues? For this critical popular project??! Meanwhile, sponsorships are at 13% of the (not terribly ambitious) goal of $6k/month [0]. Yeah, that's why. [0] https://github.com/sponsors/piskvorky
Often it is easier to get a business to pay a consulting fee for a specific thing rather than make a donation that goes into a general funding pool for a project.
I must learn Django, it's got everything I'll ever need. No, Rails will make me happy and it's better for lonely devs like me. No I must learn a Modern Web Framework (TM) to prove I'm not stuck in the past. No way, I'm not a fashionista. Have you seen that Phoenix demo where the guy builds Twitter in like 4 minutes? That's the future. Hold on a minute, enough of this magic. I need to learn to build everything in Comm…
It's actually a bit worse (or better) depending on how you see it. You get to invest (time, energy) in what will land you a job. 99% it's not what you want/like and not what is technically best. IT's just what came to dominate your job market. At least if you're in a EU backwater country or in EU public sector-related projects. (Which usually means java/c# and to a much lesser extend a python tech stack). PS: Loved t…
Where are we on the whole Django versus Rails debate? (Not cannonfodder, I am genuinely curious)
As someone who's used both - Rails packaging and environment maintenance has been so much less of a headache. Gems and Gemfiles and Gemfile.lock vs having to choose a Python package maintainer (Pipenv vs Poetry?) and deal with that has been worth it to me. In terms of how they "feel" to develop with? About the same. Similar ideals - skinny models, service layers, REST-first but you can make it RPC-style if you want..…