Comment by systemicdanna
3 years ago
I absolutely love Django and used it for many many years for all my new projects. Nowadays I only use it in a very limited set of use cases. Having an instant admin UI is a huge advantage for some business cases, flexible auth is great, very fast prototyping is still amazing, etc. Wouldn’t choose it for any front end heavy app.
Have you looked into Django Ninja?
I use FastAPI exactly because of the reasons you point out... but damn do I miss the Django ORM and admin. Django-Ninja is an acknowledgement of the realities of that.
Having heard of Django-Ninja before. Looks really good! If I understand correctly it would allow me to keep the best parts of Django (ORM, Admin UI) and build a FastAPI-inspired API? That’s an awesome combo! Curious to see benchmarks how it compares to ExpressJS.