I've not found anything in JavaScript that replaces Django in terms of ecosystem and reliability. There's lots of attempts but Django and Rest Framework nail building out APIs.
Java executes faster than Node but is more verbose.
Choose the right tool for the job. I've put Node as a reverse proxy in front of Django, but now you can do JS in Nginx so I might not choose that pattern again.
Java executes faster than Node but is more verbose.
Choose the right tool for the job. I've put Node as a reverse proxy in front of Django, but now you can do JS in Nginx so I might not choose that pattern again.