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by radiac 781 days ago
Me too, I'm convinced it has a place - the number of single file projects over the past few years can't be a coincidence.

For me the two missing pieces were models and a path to migrate to a full project once it outgrew a single file, so I wrote nanodjango (https://github.com/radiac/nanodjango/, formerly django-flasky) - you can use the ORM and admin site, and I recently added a "convert" command to automatically break up a single page app into a full Django project structure.

I've been using it for a couple of years for prototyping/experimenting and putting together small apps, and with the new features this year feels like it's a really practical alternative to flask.
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creshal 781 days ago
> I'm convinced it has a place - the number of single file projects over the past few years can't be a coincidence.

The human soul yearns for the simplicity of php or cgi-bin hosting, without the horrors of PHP or C

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radiac 780 days ago
Mine certainly does - we lost so much when we killed off our cgi-bin/guestbook.pl
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selcuka 781 days ago
This looks really cool, congratulations.

Are you planning to add some kind of API serving functionality (either by integrating something like Django Ninja or even raw Pydantic)? I think such single file frameworks are great candidates to implement microservices.

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radiac 780 days ago
Thanks! Yes definitely, I think it's a great fit for anything self-contained and limited scope that doesn't need a lot of code. I've certainly found having an easy way to run a single file using Django's ORM is pretty handy.

Regarding API serving, I'm planning on making it easier to use third party apps; the main obstacle is registering `includes` urls, which is doable at the moment but involves manually appending a path to `nanodjango.urls.urlpatterns`. I want to expand route registration to give a nicer internal api, then once that's in place Django Ninja should work pretty much out of the box - the only different should be how you register the url.

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pjerem 781 days ago
This looks amazing ! Bravo
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radiac 780 days ago
Thank you, it's great to have positive feedback!
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