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I'm an ancient web developer who would build entire web apps in django. I've tried creating forms with react, but it took 10 times longer to build it in react t

I'm an ancient web developer who would build entire web apps in django. I've tried creating forms with react, but it took 10 times longer to build it in react than it would have in django, maybe i'm just new to react, but i don't see how it would be faster even with more experience. In django i would just create a model, a form class and a template and that would handle the rendering of the form, form validation, and saving the data into a db. But with react you would have to create the components and also create a separate api that would handle the retrival and saving of data. Are there any ancient developers out there building web apps faster with react/vuejs/angular than django/rails?

blowski 10y ago
It depends on the requirements. If you need a very complicated form with lots of dynamic parts, it will be quicker and a better user experience to do all the dynamic stuff on the front end, then pass the data to the back-end for simple processing. There is no universal solution.
SadWebDeveloper 10y ago
> I'm an ancient web developer who would build entire web apps in django No, you aren't an a "ancient web developer", ancient web development goes way back before "CSS" even existed when "standardization" was hot topic and Opera was the best of the best. JS-fans keep trying hard to dismiss everything "we won" before in favor of their own "js-based" flavors (sass/less/react/etc) favorite motto "one languague to rule them all, one language to bring them all" (... and in the darkness bind them).