Alternatives to Django
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Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Created in 2003 by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison at a newspaper company, Django is built around the principle that common web tasks — authentication, admin interfaces, ORM, URL routing, form handling, and security — should be included out of the box.
FastAPI
Modern async Python API framework — faster, auto OpenAPI docs, type-safe
Flask
Minimalist Python microframework — more flexibility, less built-in
Ruby on Rails
Similar full-stack philosophy in Ruby — faster prototyping, convention-heavy
Laravel
PHP equivalent of Django — Eloquent ORM, Blade templates, Artisan CLI
Spring Boot
Java enterprise framework — better for large teams and JVM ecosystem
Express.js
Minimal Node.js framework — share JavaScript across frontend and backend
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