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[help] Should I use Django for a small website?
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this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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I started out on django and ended up switching to flask for all my python backends, but it depends on what exactly you want. Django is very hand-holdy and does some of the work of setting up new pages/routes for you, however that does put you on rails a little bit compared to flask. Flask is more performant and customizable, but it's slightly more effort to get going in my opinion.
Was there a noticeable performance improvement on flask or what kind of features did you need that django didn't provide? I've always used bigger enterprise frameworks for webapps and only recently started looking into Django for smaller personal ones so I'm wondering what are the differences
I'll be honest, the only reason I originally switched was because I needed to learn flask for a work thing. I didn't really notice any major differences in performance, but it was a pretty light website at that point anyway. I do prefer flask now, but that might just be because I've used it more.
Hmm, having googled very superficially about django and flask, it seems to me like the state (at least today) is the opposite - flask is lightweight and django is more heavy duty, having a built in ORM layer, authentication service, admin interface, db migration framework, etc.
To be fair the article also says Django is known for its performance but when I googled that the other day, it looked like it was often near the bottom of the chart rather than top... I guess it really comes down to personal preference in the end 🤷♂️