Discussion on "Which one is better for robust web apps? Nodejs or Django."

Tejas Kaneriya · 2020-09-15T17:42:58.244Z

The programmer's choice of frameworks depends upon their ability to learn and experience working on different projects. But how does that work when you have to decide based on the use case, framework's ability to scale the application, performance as...

Django is one of the most versatile framework out there and it's get better with every new releases.

Django can be used to build anything, your imagination is your limitation and that is why I love it.

Thanks for sharing!

It's a growing framework Joseph Adediji. Rightly said, it keeps getting better.

What do you mean by the below sentence for Django, can you elaborate?

it doesn’t give you the flexibility to design everything from scratch, unlike Node.js

It would help if you were more decisive when concluding because I want to know which framework you would suggest.

I am thinking more about using Django for my future project.

Django is a framework and thus you have a lot of builtin functionality, which can be restrictive if you need to stray from what the framework prescribes.

Node.js is simply the runtime like "Python" or "Php". Without leveraging frameworks written to run on Node (just as Django is a framework written to run on Python), you have the freedom to build from scratch, however cumbersome that may be.

I have not kept up with Django since it's 1.2 release many years ago, but I remember working with their Data model a pain if you needed to use a NoSQL database, for example. Also, I found signals fairly annoying to work with. These things may no longer be an issue. Django was one of the more complete (and thus complex) frameworks I've ever worked with and I have not run across as robust of a framework for Node.js

If you are writing python and just need a REST api to serve data, I have been enjoying working with Fast API with Pydantic typing. It would be comparable to running Fastify or Next.js API endpoints with TypeScript on Node.js.

Hi Dinys,

You can build anything with Django, like they say, "Django is a framework for perfectionist with a deadline".

Django is intuitive, hence it makes build apps faster without compromising your security or performance.

If Instagram can run on Django, your app can run on Django.

Did you use Django? If so for how long?

Really interesting analysis. Thanks for sharing.

Thank You Edidiong Asikpo

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