Most of the value of Django comes from the integration. You can roll your own alternative combination but every time I’ve looked at a project where they did tha

Most of the value of Django comes from the integration. You can roll your own alternative combination but every time I’ve looked at a project where they did that, it was worse than Django and they were spending a whole number multiple as much time on maintenance because none of the components were developed or tested together. That’s not a slight against other projects like Flask or SQLAlchemy, just the need to take on more integration work. If you have a Django-shaped problem, you really want to ask whether you’re going to see so much upside from something else that it’s worth taking that extra work on.