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Re:Ask HN: Career Advice Node.js vs. Django route by softwaredoug on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:40AM (#28564747)
My opinion on these kinds of questions is that I don’t trust places that hire for specific technologies. Do whichever one fires you up, and work at a place that respects that energy.
Re:Ask HN: Career Advice Node.js vs. Django route by jjice on Friday September 17, 2021 @09:32AM (#28565273)
Agreed. It's the concepts behind the general format of most web frameworks that's good to know. Switching from something like Django to Express will come with challenges, but those come from structure of code and what batteries are included. If you understand databases, sessions, middleware, etc, you're transition from one to the other will probably be pretty easy.

I've worked with Flask, Express, NextJS, and vanilla PHP professionally, and while they feel different in structure and ergonomics, they all do the same thing and the transition was easy.