I really like the minimalistic design of the website, but I was disappointed to see Wordpress used. Does anyone know if something similar exists whether free or paid - as long as it's available as plain CSS/HTML?
Fruska gora, a mountain region in Serbia, has acquired or were gifted 5 European bisons from Poland[0]. It's always heartwarming to see a country working extremely hard to preserve any species. It was devastating news for a lot of people that one of the bisons, Djuka, passed away recently (not to be confused with a Serbian politician Vladimir Djukanovic also known as bison Djuka[1]).
That would have been my argument exactly - I am not saying that Django fits every use case, but with my limited exposure to projects that have ended up using non-Django Python API framework, they ended up recreating the batteries included approach, with probably way too many issues waiting to be discovered with manually rolled out auth, middlewares and ORM.
It's such a shame Pyramid isn't more popular. I think you'll find what they have recreated is not Django, it's Pyramid.
The thing is, Django isn't just a web framework. Django is a CRUD app framework. It's great for building CRUD apps, but that's about it. In other words, it makes the easy stuff easy, but doesn't help with the hard stuff (in fact, it often hinders it).
I think the real reason for using Django is the "app" ecosystem. You wouldn't be able to get Django-style packages with Pyramid. It's possible with Django, though, because it's a CRUD app framework.
If you're not using "apps" then I guess the only other reason is the community support that you probably won't get from Pyramid + SQLAlchemy or similar.
The apps are a major sell like with any ecosystem. But don't forget you also get a stable, mature project, excellent documentation, a pool of developers, etc.
The main benefit most people see right away is the Pydantic integration & it requires less boiler plate for basic API's. Ninja is essentially FastAPI + Django.
I prefer Ninja over DRF, but I know plenty of orgs who still love their class based DRF views as once you are over the (significant) mental hurdle of understanding all the abstraction there, it does give you the common CRUD type operations on your models "for free".
DRF has more abstraction. When I was new to Django I found DRF hard to build a larger API with it and not make mistakes or have things get confusing. You're primarily working by extending classes etc.
With django-ninja you just define your APIs with annotated types as methods, there is no magic, and then you get a generated OpenAPI spec.
this was my experience anyway, I used DRF for this project [0] and ninja for this one [1]
I haven't used django-ninja but to me it looks like the API is a bit nicer or more 'modern' looking (i.e. declarative via type annotations) and it's faster, both due to being based on Pydantic
DRF is old and API looks more like Django forms or class-based views, more of an OOP hierarchy going on, and DRF serializers are slow
Old is a harsh word, maybe mature would be a better fit, not everything new and shiny is gold, and yet not everything old sucks.
Not arguing here about types and Pydantic being faster than the built in ModelSerializers. However, for serializer speed improvements and performance in DRF I would advise dropping ModelSerializers and either going for Serializers or plain dict. Haki Benita has a beautiful article on that [0]. I was able to accomplish sub 200 response times on a fairly large response from tables that had tens of millions of records.
I think you have no objective reason other than your styling and rather personal preference for function based views?
I'm genuinely surprised it got my accent right. Coming from Serbia, I'd never expect to get it right. My first guess was that it's geo-ip based, but I could be wrong.
While we are it - are there any good resources on how to best self host a Postgres database? Any tips and tricks, best practices, docker / no docker etc? I’m looking to self host a database server for my multiple pet projects, but I would love to get backups, optimizations and other stuff done well.
I find this YouTube channel[0] has a great number of videos on how to setup Postgres on a regular Linux machine, explaining how configure it and make it work for high availability. It’s easier than you’d think.
Not the answer you were looking for, but I had been shopping recently for slightly overlapping reasons (I want to ship projects, but they are all smaller MVPs that might run for a while and I didn't want to pay for 1 database service for each one on Render).
