A lot. And it baffles me why hasn't anyone realized that Kenneth Reitz was right about django over a decade ago and all his points are equally valid today.
- Admin panel? Django has me
- Web forms? Django has me
- Testing? Django, again has an out of the box solution
- Latest in security practices[0]? Again, covered for free
Flask, boy oh boy. I want an ORM? Guess I have to search around, Flask-SQLAlchemy has a lot of hits, I guess? Emails? Well, the Flask Mega-Tutorial uses Flask-Mail[1], guess I will use that. Oh look, it has not been updated since 2014[2]. Hope there is not a security flaw in there[3].
Django follows best practices, and has a huge community ensuring that there is adequate coverage and features required for modern development.
[0]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/releases/4.2/ note on the BREACH attack
[1]: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...
I am by no means a fan of flask. However it gives you a lot more freedom to structure your application to your taste. Django is basically a php 5.4 framework with a python syntax.
In this day and age fastAPI is a solid choice, so is falcon and probably half a dozen others.
import os
from django.conf import settings
from django.core import management
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.http import HttpResponse
# Django 2.2 Release Notes
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/releases/2.2/
# Documentation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/
__version__ = 0.1
DEBUG = True
ROOT_URLCONF = 'project'
DATABASES = {'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', 'NAME': 'project.db' }}
SECRET_KEY = os.getenv('SECRET_KEY', 'Please set a SECRET_KEY as an env var.')
if not settings.configured:
settings.configure(**locals())
def index(request):
return HttpResponse('Hello Django!')
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', index),
]
if __name__ == '__main__': # pragma: no cover
management.execute_from_command_line()With that being said, I hadn't thought much about "before Flask". I very well might feel differently if I had been coding then.