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So much of this. I have seen so many developers switching between frameworks every two or three years, wasting away substantial accumulated knowledge and bags o

So much of this. I have seen so many developers switching between frameworks every two or three years, wasting away substantial accumulated knowledge and bags of tricks, the kind that allow you to make a living as a consultant because you can crank out CRUDs and REST endpoints like it's nobody's business. Some parts of the framework feel a little long in the tooth. The admin could use a rewrite with CBVs; the forms API just doesn't look so good compared to serialization abstractions in Rest frameworks nowadays. Still, it is a weapon, combined with Postgres, container-based deployments and a half dozen Django apps, there's few frameworks that come even close in terms of productivity and polish.

slownews45 5y ago
It's a nice combo of pretty stable, very productive, good technology. The postgresql integration is wonderful, so I like the database choice and they've had good support for postgresql for a while (a lot of other frameworks really were MySQL focused). Mix in container based deploys - great!
Alir3z4 5y ago
Exactly. I used pretty much many framework before settling on Django and polishing my knowledge and skills on it. Some places of Django could annoy me a bit, for instance Admin customization, but I got to conclusion that it's impossible to make Django customizable to every needs. The best would be create an admin dashboard for your own stuff. Charts, reporting, backoffice type are. Although it's possible to do so with current admin, but it's get annoying and after a while I see it be much better served if my requirements get created separately without poking around the admin so much. I usually create a separate app then include all the business requirements that don't fit in admin. Probably admin could expose a REST API? meh! Been a very long time that haven't worked with Forms, but compared with what comes out from DRF serializer etc, indeed would need some love. However, it's been years since majority of apps are built by frontend frameworks and using Django via DRF. The integration that comes with PostgreSQL and everything around Django ecosystem is mad productive. It takes a very short time to prototype and containerize the whole thing and have it on production. Fortunately or unfortunately, since I got comfortable with Django, I compare everything with it and it's really really really hard to swap it with something else.

slownews45 5y ago

It's a nice combo of pretty stable, very productive, good technology. The postgresql integration is wonderful, so I like the database choice and they've had good support for postgresql for a while (a lot of other frameworks really were MySQL focused). Mix in container based deploys - great!

Alir3z4 5y ago

Exactly. I used pretty much many framework before settling on Django and polishing my knowledge and skills on it. Some places of Django could annoy me a bit, for instance Admin customization, but I got to conclusion that it's impossible to make Django customizable to every needs. The best would be create an admin dashboard for your own stuff. Charts, reporting, backoffice type are. Although it's possible to do so with current admin, but it's get annoying and after a while I see it be much better served if my requirements get created separately without poking around the admin so much. I usually create a separate app then include all the business requirements that don't fit in admin. Probably admin could expose a REST API? meh! Been a very long time that haven't worked with Forms, but compared with what comes out from DRF serializer etc, indeed would need some love. However, it's been years since majority of apps are built by frontend frameworks and using Django via DRF. The integration that comes with PostgreSQL and everything around Django ecosystem is mad productive. It takes a very short time to prototype and containerize the whole thing and have it on production. Fortunately or unfortunately, since I got comfortable with Django, I compare everything with it and it's really really really hard to swap it with something else.