[charlierguo]

> This allows you to run API migrations and data migrations independently. Which is crucial for any service that will last longer than 1 year.

I've felt nervous for years about going all-in with Django Rest Framework, and you've articulated exactly why.

[trashburger]

We use it at work. We always define the exact fields we want, and can swap them for SerializerMethodFields if we need to do something different/funky. It works very well, imo.

[kdazzle]

Yeah, I wish every language had something as nice as DRF. I’ve never had issues with it for a few different multi-year codebases.