[phatboyslim]

I admire the motivation here to offer a boilerplate to the community using these tools, but it feels like a lot of this has been solved by the Baas providers like AWS Amplify, Azure Static Web Apps, Firebase, etc.

These services all support your choice of front-end and back-end programming language. All these providers also allow hooks into features like security, database, apis, ci/cd, and so on. You would be in a serverless architecture also which provides scalability and keeps costs low up front. Not trying to discredit the author here, which is admirable in the intent, but feels like it's trying to solve for something that several other solutions exist for unless I'm missing something critical.

[almost]

Serverless type things are totally fine if you’re into that. But it can be nice to just have a simple backend running on a server. No different services to think about, just simple code. For me Django is the way to go because I’ve been using it for years, for others it might be some other language/framework. You should most definitely continue to do you, but for me that’s what works.