Anyone Using Django?

Hey!

I use Django for literally every project for the last 12+ years.

The most typical project stack is:
Django
Celery
Django Post Office for managing sending emails

Postgres, rabbitmq, Redis

Deployment: I did bare-metal deployments for a long time(ubuntu, supervisor, etc). It is complete madness to set up.

Tried Heroku: too expensive for side projects. (Fast forward – it is freaking expensive for production use too).

I thought there must be a better way and I made "my own Heroku": https://appliku.com/products/deploy

You can read the full story here:

https://dev.to/kostjapalovic/tired-of-deployments-built-my-own-heroku-47ed

Wrote tutorial on starting a project to deployment https://appliku.com/post/django-project-tutorial-beginners-settings-docker

You can also be interested in starter template which I built and use: https://github.com/appliku/djangitos

If you are interested in making your deployments easy and fun (as in never care about them at all) – let me know, I'll assist you to deploy with Appliku.

Best wishes!

Depending on your use case, Flask could be another Python framework worth a look. I haven't used Django myself, but I love the flexibility Flask provides as a micro-framework. There are some interesting comparison points made in this blog: https://testdriven.io/blog/django-vs-flask/

For example, I didn't know that (a) Flask has more projects, despite Django being older and having more contributors, and (b) hiring Django developers could be an issue. I haven't verified any of these claims, but I'd imagine Flask has a simpler learning curve.

I use Django for all of my products (pageflows.com, screenlane.com, memo.fm, and more)

I usually host on Digital Ocean and have started using Tailwind for styling. I mostly stick to vanilla JS because my products are simple.

My friend @kpalovic is using Django and has built a hole deployment SaaS around it.

Hey!

I use Django for Kami, an assistant for patients with type 2 diabetes. As it's mostly event based, I use Celery and RabbitMQ to handle automated tasks such as sending biomarker check-ins and messages.

TBH, Django's a little more difficult to understand than other frameworks like Ruby on Rails. But Python is now my main programming language (because of its analytics capabilities) and using different languages isn't an option for me.

I've found this course and this blog quite useful while building my app.

Good luck on your project!

Hi @engineerkunle I'm using Django for my project https:/djangojob.com it's a Django job board with a community of +1000 Django developers, is doing great so far, feel free to reach out to me if you want to talk about it!

I use Django + DRF + React for all my projects. Some examples:

• https://wfh.team
• https://agalaxy404away.com
• https://kiwipto.com

Very happy with the stack and how they all work together. I wrote an article about it here.
https://wfh.team/blog/3-from-0-to-15000-users-in-100-days-

I've been building projects in Django for over 10 years and never had any reason to switch.

Lately I've been using it primarily with React in a hybrid model (where Django still renders the pages and handles 80% of the content, but React gets brought in for any front-end-heavy pages). I've found this architecture is ideal for solo-projects and allows me to create MVPs ridiculously fast. I've written about it extensively in these guides to building a SaaS with Django and just gave a talk on it at DjangoCon EU.

If you're looking for a running start, my product SaaS Pegasus is also designed to help kickstart Django SaaS projects. Feel free to get in touch with me if you want to discuss more about it!

I use Django and Flask for my projects. You may find a list of boilerplate code using both in this repo https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates

Hey, We use Django at our startup.

Pros -

1. Easy to write code
2. Faster development speeds
3. Good community / docs available easily on the net
4. Easy to deploy (using dedicated tools like Heroku, etc)

Cons -

1. Python is slower than other technologies available like NodeJS and GoLang.

Pro Tip : Check out FastAPI. It is python web framework which combines the better of both worlds - the ease of python and the execution speed of GoLang. However, as it is relatively new the online community is not as good as that of Django. However official docs are good. Link - https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

Other tools that we use alongside Django -

1. Postgres + MongoDB for database
2. Redis for caching
3. Apache Kafka for messenger queues
4. AWS stack for all infra related operations
5. Grafana + Prometheus for Alerts and Monitoring

I'm a huuuuge Django fan! I build almost everything in Django.

One of my recent projects is Phase CRM -- we're a "TweetDeck" for Slack. You use our product to get a TweetDeck-like interface for your Slack community so you can more easily find trends, deal with spam, manage members, etc.

In addition to Django, we use vanilla JavaScript, and Postgres for the backend. Hosted on AWS.

I'm also a huge fan of NLP and building a second project using Spacy, NLTK, and Scikit Learn, along with FastAPI.

Zlappo is run on Python/Django + Postgres + Bootstrap/vanilla Javascript, very happy with my stack so far.

I use Django for all my side projects and the day job. My tech stack is Django, Celery, Caddy, Docker (Swarm) , Redis and Postgres. The recent project I have released with Django is https://mailboxfiler.com

Interesting to see all the various use cases. Isn't the old saying true though "use what you know and are comfortable with"?

I'm interested in python as well (automate the boring stuff was free so I jumped on if) I just wanted to try another language myself, perhaps I'm answering my own comment above 😄

I use Django and Graphene Django for Baseline along with Quasar on the front-end.

I'm pretty happy with that setup, quick to work on once you got the hang of GraphQL.

I use the Django REST framework as the backend for wait, what do you do.

It is very simple to set up and I highly recommend it!

I plan to run a pair of applications on Django + mg

I use Django for all my projects! It's awesome.

For project inspiration, checkout Built with Django. There are many cool examples of apps built with Django.

Absolutely! I've been using it for years and it is by far the fastest way for me to get an idea to market. I'm currently using it on:

• https://peer.haus
• https://sitetap.co
• countless projects that have since been taken down

As for the remaining tech stack:

• Vue.js
• MySQL
• gunicorn
• NGINX
• Bootstrap for styling
• Auth0 for authentication/login

Hey, I did build more than 5 web apps using Django some of them are saas product. It has some built-in features and also you can custom build on your need. you can build the UI with Django template(will get messy at a certain point) or else use some framework(reactjs)