dj-database-url VS graphene-django

One I would like to see is for dj-database-url (https://github.com/jazzband/dj-database-url) to be built-into the project. It is one of those extensions I am always going to install because it is just so handy.

DJ-Database-URL DJ-Database-URL is a package that allows easy configuration of database settings in Django projects using environment variables or URLs. It provides a convenient way to manage database settings, especially in production environments where URLs typically provide database connections.

To hook it into the Django app the simplest method is to use the dj-database-url package. This will read the DATABASE_URL string from Heroku and convert it into an appropriate DATABASES object in your settings file.

dj-database-url: for connecting to various databases

Graphene-Django Graphene-Django is a powerful library that integrates the GraphQL query language with Django, allowing for the development of flexible and efficient APIs. It seamlessly combines the expressive power of GraphQL with the simplicity and elegance of Django, enabling us to design APIs that fetch only the data the clients need.

Install Graphene and Graphene-Django. Graphene is a tool that makes working with GraphQL in Python easy, while Graphene-Django adds some additional abstractions to make adding GraphQL functionality to your Django project a breeze. To install Graphene and Graphene-Django, run the following on your command line/terminal, pip install graphene graphene-django.

But if you must take a look graphene for graphql. https://docs.graphene-python.org/projects/django/en/latest/

You will find a lot of videos about Django on YouTube. If you need a REST API try DRF. If you want GraphQL try Graphene Django. For WebSockets there is Channels. If you don't want to bother with having an API for your frontend but you still want that SPA feeling try HTMX.

I've used Graphene + Graphene Django to write GraphQL APIs for several years now, but graphene-django unfortunately seems to (mostly) be abandoned now.

In conclusion, the Graphene-Django library makes it easy to get started with GraphQL integration by allowing you to use your existing Django models as the data source for your GraphQL API and automatically generate the schema. For more information, check out the documentation.

Django ninja strawberry Graphene

in my last project I used graphene to build a Django backend application with GraphQL. It seemed like the best framework to adopt graphql in python at that time in terms of stability and maturity.