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In this day and age, mobile apps are _almost_ a must so REST is everywhere. A well-implemented REST app is pretty nice, business logic divorced from all UI and

by pen2l 4y ago

In this day and age, mobile apps are _almost_ a must so REST is everywhere. A well-implemented REST app is pretty nice, business logic divorced from all UI and API lends itself nicely as a comfortable and maintainable programming environment. More often than not, being RESTful from the get-go tends to have positive returns down the line.

acdha 4y ago
> In this day and age, mobile apps are _almost_ a must so REST is everywhere. This really isn't true. Mobile apps are far more expensive to develop (everything is doubled, you're dealing with periodic forced updates outside of your development schedule, etc.) and there are a ton of apps which don't need anything you can't do in a browser. One of the earliest things to do on a project is agreeing on what level of complexity makes sense for you. If your project doesn't have a known hard requirement for mobile apps and correspondingly large team sizes, a classic Django app is likely to let you iterate an order of magnitude faster at lower cost overall.