Re:Django 4.2 Released
by surfingdino on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:51PM
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Django's hidden powers are its highly customisable admin UI and ORM. Add to it Django REST framework and you have a solid backend for a wide category of web apps, from the old pre-XMLHttpRequest apps to SPAs. Flask or FastAPI get you going fast, but you quickly realise that you have to write a lot of the code that comes with Django for free.
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I personally prefer Django Ninja over DRF for APIs, it's all the good parts of FastAPI mixed with Django.
Re:Django 4.2 Released
by zach_garwood on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:29PM
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Honestly, I think the generic and model views are way more impressive than the ORM or the admin. They take away all of the boilerplate usually associated with CRUD apps.
I've used them for quite a while but came back to the old function views. The Generic Views are a mess to understand, the hierarchy tree gets so complicated. See for example : https://ccbv.co.uk/projects/Django/4.1/django.views.generic.... there are 9 classes in the inheritance tree. For every slight change from the default behavior you need to research the documentation, find which method to override…
In the end I have to write a bit more of boilerplate each time (and with tools like copilot it's a non-issue) but it's 10x faster to understand what a view does and how when reading code.
> For every slight change from the default behavior you need to research the documentation, find which method to override…
I just use an IDE which allows me to Ctrl+Click into any symbol and see its implementation and underlying classes (and do so recursively if needed). That saves me from having to lookup the documentation all the time.