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I really love Django. I knew nothing about web development, it took me by the hand and from a tutorial I went to a full fledged application.

I cannot fathom what is the GDP impact that these folks enabled.

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After more than a decade building custom admin-like interfaces from scratch in PHP, the auto-generated admin interface in Django felt like magic.

Django admin + the Django ORM are the biggest reasons I haven’t moved to JavaScript Metaframework land. Next.js is great in its support of react and server rendered react for SEO. But where Django wins is that logic will always have to be on the trusted compute environment, the server. JS Metaframeworks approached the full stack problem from the front end and Django from the backend.

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