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Happy 20th Birthday, Django

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578 points davepeck | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 18:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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Euphorbium ◴[14 Jul 25 12:55 UTC] No.44559640[source]▶
Fastapi has completely replaced django for me. I do not miss orm at all.
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lutoma ◴[14 Jul 25 13:26 UTC] No.44559962[source]▶
I’ve also switched away from Django (to Litestar), but the ORM is the mean thing I keep missing from Django. SQLAlchemy feels really clunky by comparison
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sparkling ◴[14 Jul 25 16:44 UTC] No.44562230[source]▶
What made you choose Litestar over fastapi (which seems to be the most popular choice right now)?
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1. lutoma ◴[15 Jul 25 11:56 UTC] No.44570215[source]▶
Mostly the better documentation (last I checked FastAPI docs felt more like a series of blog posts than actual docs, but maybe that's improved). I also preferred the community-driven approach of Litestar as opposed to FastAPI's BDFL-type development structure.

I think there were also some technical details I liked better about Litestar where it was more explicit about things while FastAPI was more "opaque magic happening in the background", but to be honest I don't remember all of those.