Django

Django is bigger and more complex than Flask or FastAPI, targeting perfectionists with deadlines, according to its website. Its built-in object-relational mapper (ORM) is useful for sites with major database backends. It’s more of a monolith than a toolkit. Whether the extra complexity and learning curve are justified depends on your application.

Although Django was a traditional WSGI application, version 3.0 added support for ASGI.

Unlike Flask and FastAPI, Django likes to define routes (associating URLs with web functions, which it calls view functions) in a single URLConf table, rather than using decorators. This makes it easier to see all your routes in one place, but makes it harder to see what URL is associated with a function when you’re looking at just the function.

Installation

$ pip install Django==2.1.3

Common Commands

$ python -m django --version