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Seems like a strange bit of feedback to me. My company uses Django as the backend for our REST API and it's simply phenomenal. Django isn't a complete solution out of the box, but that's why things like Django REST Framework [0] exist. It supports JSON-based views and has an excellent serialization layer that can map directly to the ORM models.
This setup does NOT help with serving our frontend app, but we're using React for that anyway and I'm not sure I'd want our frontend so tightly coupled to the backend.
The fact that Django is mature and extremely stable between versions is a huge selling point for us. I'm not interested in making sweeping changes to our backend just because someone invented a new paradigm that may or may not be helpful to our app (eg, GraphQL).
That said, rendering HTML templates server-side does feel pretty archaic these days. I think it would be great for Django to take a more API-centric approach for a default installation. I can imagine that anybody coming from the JS world would feel totally out of place in terms of how Django works out of the box.
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The microblogging application developed in my Flask Mega-Tutorial series. This version maps to the 2024 Edition of the tutorial.
To be fair, I'm familiar with Flask and (some) of its complimentary modules. FastAPI has a lot of buzz right now, but it's also fairly new - I'll probably experiment with it first.
Also, I think that Django is a good choice over Flask if you've never done anything in flask. But if you have an existing Flask site that can serve as a skeleton, I think it's just as good as Django as a starting point; details such as code structure and common library choice is then already handles - in fact just following https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial... will get you a lot of this too; Do you have any other batteries in mind? Ialso see Django having plenty "gotchas" (although it maybe have changed since I last used it). I definitely much prefer SQLAlchemy over DjangoORM.
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You may want to keep an eye on https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja
Its still a bit young, but I like a lot of what they are doing.
As for Instagram, I wonder if they replaced the ORM with their own in-house ORM or something else?
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Helpers for creating high-level functional tests in Django, with a unified API for WebTest and Selenium tests.
I think the case for server-side HTML rendering has never been stronger, and of all Django projects I work on, the ones I enjoy most are those that never got on the SPA bandwagon. From both a developer and user point of view I find them much faster and less painful. There are many cases where you really, really don't need the massive amount of extra complexity involved in designing APIs, adding JS frameworks etc.
When you need a bit of extra UI goodness, [htmx](https://htmx.org/) is a fantastic solution, and you can still use SPA-type approaches for things that need them.
You can also benefit from massively faster (and more reliable) functional testing when you are mostly standard HTML - see [django-functest](https://github.com/django-functest/django-functest/) for an example of this.
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I think the case for server-side HTML rendering has never been stronger, and of all Django projects I work on, the ones I enjoy most are those that never got on the SPA bandwagon. From both a developer and user point of view I find them much faster and less painful. There are many cases where you really, really don't need the massive amount of extra complexity involved in designing APIs, adding JS frameworks etc.
When you need a bit of extra UI goodness, [htmx](https://htmx.org/) is a fantastic solution, and you can still use SPA-type approaches for things that need them.
You can also benefit from massively faster (and more reliable) functional testing when you are mostly standard HTML - see [django-functest](https://github.com/django-functest/django-functest/) for an example of this.
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