django-ninja VS sqlmodel

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.

Seems like this is a known bug in SQLModel: https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel/issues/10

I have not used it myself but the creator of fastapi has made https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel

I have already posted this question in Stack Overflow and GitHub and have been ignored in both 😢. You guys are my last hope.

I had a requirement to process and validate large payloads of JSON concurrently for a web service, initially I implemented it using jsonschema and fastjsonschema but I found the whole JSON Schema Specification to be confusing at times and on top of that wanted better performance. Albeit there are ways to compile/cache the schema, I wanted to move away from the schema specification so I wrote a validation library inspired by the design of tiangolo/sqlmodel (type hints) to solve this problem easier.

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I would say as long as your current solution works and is easy to maintain keep it. If you want to switch I would recommend FastAPI, it is new(ish), but definitely old enough to have been tested and used in a large variety of production usecases. In your case it might be interesting to have a look at SQLModel (works with FastAPI, same author), especially if the API endpoints match closely to the database objects. https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel

SQLModel.

Sounds similar to https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel

There was a lot of hype and excitement around the release of SQLModel, a Pydantic + SQLAlchemy hybrid Model library with native integration for FastAPI. I pulled it out just now and there hasn't been any update beyond the initial anouncment on August 25th.