Yes I agree with you. My favourite stack right now is Django with DRF+Admin for backend, Typescript+NextJS (React) for frontend. I front the backend with Caddy, have django live on both admin.example.com and api.example.com with a couple of rewrites, and put cloudflare access in front of admin.example.com.

Currently I still use allauth for social authentication, though I'm not a fan of how little flexibility I get with it especially in such a setup (it makes a lot of assumptions about a template setup).

The other weakness in this stack is the lack of API typings. I haven't bothered messing with OpenAPI yet; I probably should but I understand that it's not a silver bullet in terms of typings either, so I just end up writing my own types for the API and it does become a very repetitive maintenance burden…

You should check out FastAPI. I’ve been a Django dev for years but now that all projects have pretty much moved to client side js + drf backend anyway I’ve been using FastAPI for new projects. The way it takes advantage of Python typing is a thing of beauty!

Yup I've used FastAPI and love it. I'm not entirely sold on it when it comes to dealing with the ORM though, and the lack of a Django-quality admin is kind of a bummer.

Agreed. The Django ORM is so good. SQLAlchemy ORM feels like a huge step backward.

There are some new ones coming on the scene, like Dino and Tortoise, but nothing mature.