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Claude Code is also very good at building basic CRUD apps with Django.

No kidding, it is really good especially with htmx which helps you get some of the advantages of a full SPA without the complexity of a separate frontend.

Been building a project in the side to help my studies and it usually implement new complete apps from one prompt, working on the first try

Yeah, I've noticed it regularly suggests htmx (and perhaps something light like alpinejs or some vanilla JS glue logic) to build powerful yet simple interfaces in Django. And it seems to get them right - saving you a lot of time.

It is probably good a HTMX for the same reason it is good at Tailwind CSS; HTMX puts the functionality on the elements being reasoned about (e.g. click this button, load the result here).

That's a huge bonus point for Django. It's so prevalent that Claude/Codex are very good at setting it up the right way, using tried and true patterns.

I've been vibe coding some side projects with Claude Code + Django + htmx/tailwind, and when it's time to go some manual work in the codebase I know exactly where things are and what they do, there's way fewer weird patterns or hack the way Claude tends to do when it's not as guided

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