[surfingdino]

Django's hidden powers are its highly customisable admin UI and ORM. Add to it Django REST framework and you have a solid backend for a wide category of web apps, from the old pre-XMLHttpRequest apps to SPAs. Flask or FastAPI get you going fast, but you quickly realise that you have to write a lot of the code that comes with Django for free.

[hooverd]

I personally prefer Django Ninja over DRF for APIs, it's all the good parts of FastAPI mixed with Django.

[zach_garwood]

Honestly, I think the generic and model views are way more impressive than the ORM or the admin. They take away all of the boilerplate usually associated with CRUD apps.

[luxcem]

I've used them for quite a while but came back to the old function views. The Generic Views are a mess to understand, the hierarchy tree gets so complicated. See for example : https://ccbv.co.uk/projects/Django/4.1/django.views.generic.... there are 9 classes in the inheritance tree. For every slight change from the default behavior you need to research the documentation, find which method to override…

In the end I have to write a bit more of boilerplate each time (and with tools like copilot it's a non-issue) but it's 10x faster to understand what a view does and how when reading code.

[Nextgrid]

> For every slight change from the default behavior you need to research the documentation, find which method to override…

I just use an IDE which allows me to Ctrl+Click into any symbol and see its implementation and underlying classes (and do so recursively if needed). That saves me from having to lookup the documentation all the time.