[systemicdanna]

I absolutely love Django and used it for many many years for all my new projects. Nowadays I only use it in a very limited set of use cases. Having an instant admin UI is a huge advantage for some business cases, flexible auth is great, very fast prototyping is still amazing, etc. Wouldn’t choose it for any front end heavy app.

[scrollaway]

Have you looked into Django Ninja?

I use FastAPI exactly because of the reasons you point out... but damn do I miss the Django ORM and admin. Django-Ninja is an acknowledgement of the realities of that.

[systemicdanna]

Having heard of Django-Ninja before. Looks really good! If I understand correctly it would allow me to keep the best parts of Django (ORM, Admin UI) and build a FastAPI-inspired API? That’s an awesome combo! Curious to see benchmarks how it compares to ExpressJS.