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How was the effort to migrate from DRF to Django-Ninja? I saw Django-Ninja mentioned in another post and am thinking of switching one of my projects over from DRF. After skimming their documentation, it looks very pleasant and simple and perfect for my use case.

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Going from 0 → 1 migrated route was "medium difficulty", I'd say — there was a non-trivial amount of scaffolding I had to build out around auth, error codes, and so on, and django-ninja's docs are still a little lackluster when it comes to edge cases.

Once I had that one migrated route, though, the rest were very simple. (And I am very happy with the migration overall!)

I've had that on my list to try out for a while now. FastAPI is a joy, having generated OpenAPI is a must, so Ninja sounds good.

I've had quite enough of DRF's tower of mixins and rails like magic. It always sucks up development time and fails too easily.

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