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Is Django still relevant in the web community? I watched "Making Disqus Realtime" a year ago, where they were talking about building a real-time system using Django, gevent, gunicorn, Redis, Flask, nginx, haproxy. The entire stack could be condensed into node.js + socket.io.

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Still relevant? You've got to be kidding me. Sure node is the new cool thing, but Django is going to "relevant" for years to come. Even just looking at job openings in very tech forward places like SF the Django jobs out weigh node jobs 5 to 1.

Keep in mind not everything needs to be that "real time" and it is also a horrible business decision to rewrite your core apps in the latest framework without reason.

Where do you get the 5:1 ratio?

Jobs in SF Bay Area on Craigslist: Node 95, Django 50

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/?sort=rel&areaID=1&subAre...

If you want a schema database backed Web App or API then yeah, sure, both Rails & Django are clearly still the most mature and fully featured frameworks. Yes, there's plenty of other interesting things happening, and yes Django is only going to be one part of many in your stack, but it's still got a hell of a lot going for it.

If the web community is those hipsters who want to rewrite everything to a fad tech of the month, every month, then Django is completely outdated and irrelevant.

Otherwise, it's just another relatively solid general-purpose framework. Probably not fit (unless heavily tinkered with) for edge cases, missing certain features and has its share of quirks, but still a fine choice for many typical websites out there.

I love node but really!? Django is used in ALOT of really big sites/startups and with tornado/gevent/twisted it's able to handle almost anything that node can.

Maybe in five years the world will have moved predominantly to node. But right now, django is still extremely relevant.

I'm curious, why did the tutorial you watched choose to use both Django and Flask?

um, yes. I've got a major business system running on django right now. I'm also just starting a new one on the same platform.

I personally couldn't care less what the flavour of the day is, because I'm not chasing celebrity, I'm making my business money.

Django works really well when you need a full stack web-app up and running quickly. You know what I don't need? Javascript anything, really.

Not everything needs to be real time. In fact, most web sites and apps do not.

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