[kdazzle]

Django with DRF will get you a very maintainable API, and you can have as little or as much boilerplate as you want. For example, you can inherit all of the model’s fields, or you can choose to specify them all, or somewhere in between, add additional fields, etc. You can have it generate pagination or certain filters. It’s got plenty of hooks for overriding functionality.

If you see performance issues or situations where youre hitting the n+1 query issue, you can optimize by using the orm’s prefetch_related, select_related, or just drop into raw sql.

Im obviously a fanperson, but have yet to find a framework combo that I like more than those two. It’s not very fashionable, but you’ll end up with an app thats quick to develop and thats reasonably secure by default.