While I do keep my eyes on FastAPI, even in this case I would recommend Django to a beginner, solely because of the amazing Django Rest Framework. Not only it

While I do keep my eyes on FastAPI, even in this case I would recommend Django to a beginner, solely because of the amazing Django Rest Framework. Not only it makes creating an API from ORM models quick and easy (although the documentation doesn't let you believe so), but it also let you do custom views seaminglessly, including goodies such as standardized permissions, authentication and pagination with several levels of granularity. Having that being able to be integrated with all the rest of the Django ecosystem transparently (your website, a wagtail CRM, etc.) is really sweet. But the biggest advantage for a beginner is again that it will prevent them from having to make decisions they are likely to get wrong. Especially on the serialization, format, identifier policy and homogeneity of the API: people crafting that by hand often make a big mess and don't even know about it.