| Here's one way I look at it. I don't need or want the simplified local development environment. As neat as "runserver" might be, it actually creates a problem, because going from there to production feels like the difference between driving on a lazy country road on a beautiful summer day to driving in the middle of one of the most chaotic cities in the world in a storm. My humble suggestion would be that this form of easy local development should be deprecated in favor of creating a server-based local development model that translates 100%, without friction, to production servers. Simple example, I do all my web development work either using a Linux server VM on my Windows machine or a Linux server on our network. These days, running a VM with whatever flavor of Linux isn't a problem for anyone. Django could, out of the box, come with such an arrangement for local development. Perhaps in the form of an Ansible script. I would want to see at least two development scenarios supported. The first would be as close to bare metal as one might want to get (say, Linode) and the other should be setup to work on something like a GoDaddy multi-hosting VPS. This would allow for frictionless transition from local development to production deployment for a huge class of sites. Anyone doing anything more complex than that would have the time and maybe even the engineers to devote to designing and deploying a complex infrastructure with multiple kinds of servers, load balancing, etc. Bottom line is, I think "runserver" is a neat trick but it likely ends up causing far more frustration than might be obvious. I have spoken to a number of people who tried Django, liked it, and moved on in frustration when they hit a brick wall when they had to figure out deployment. I like to say that people don't go to the hardware store to buy a drill bit. What they are after is a hole. It's the same with websites. Nobody needs a Django website. Nobody. There are a bunch of alternative technologies out there. Which means that if Django makes "getting a hole" difficult, people will just move on. They don't want to become experts in manufacturing drill bits, they just want a hole. |