django-ninja VS django-tastypie

Django Ninja [1], it forever changed how I write Django project, in a way so elegant and productive.

[1]: https://django-ninja.dev/

Django Ninja is a RESTful wrapper for Django, while UtilMeta Python Framework uses a more concise declarative ORM Schema for Django and other future-supporting ORMs like sqlachemy and Peewee to build RESTful APIs more efficiently, and supports not only Django but all Python mainstream frameworks like Django, Flask, Starlette, FastAPI, Sanic, Tornado, etc.

I can't recommend [django-ninja](https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja) enough. It's an easy to use, extremely fast, typed API for django. I've found it to be better in almost all aspects when compared to djangorestframework.

It's gaining popularity but is still widely unknown.

> The only place I really see Django at large companies is as an api using DRF or something.

This is not a bad thing. Using Django as an API backend is amazingly fast in terms of development time, especially with modern frameworks such as django-ninja [1].

Just use the built-in ORM to create models, write your endpoints, and use the built-in admin interface to play with the database if you don't have endpoints for everything.

There is also a less known feature of Django called admindocs [2], which automatically generates a human readable, hyperlinked documentation for your models and relations between them.

[1] https://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/

[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/ref/contrib/admin/admi...

Personally, I also prefer django-ninja to DRF.

Actually that's not fully true. If you mix async and sync codes in django-ninja there will be some errors. Where's the proof ? django-ninja doesn't support async auth

Subscribe to this issue :D

Also recommend Django-Ninja. It basically reimplements fastapi's type and decorator-based API construction, but embedded directly in django so you have access to django's ORM and middleware library.

Unfortunately tastypie doesn't yet work with Django 4.1 - I logged this bug a few weeks ago https://github.com/django-tastypie/django-tastypie/issues/1640

Other than DRF, TastyPie is the other REST API framework for Django I had used in the past.

For an API, if you have a backend like Django (which I admit has a solid learning curve) you can make quick APIs with addons like django rest framework, or tastypie. The most recent I saw was django-ninja, but I have yet to try that out. I think an ML / cookie cutter plugin would be pretty interesting to be honest. I'll keep a look out and see, but /u/halfourname is correct, the flexibility would have penalties. Usually they're very narrow in scope.

But the django-tastypie GitHub repo shows there's recent activity and it now supports "Django 2.2, 3.2 (LTS releases) or Django 4.0 (latest release)".