Django to serve JSON: overkill?

[Charley Paulus]

Hi,

Is it overkill to use Django just to dispatch url requests and to reply with JSON (i.e. not using at all the HTML template engine)?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Charley

[Babatunde Akinyanmi]

Not necessarily. It just depends on the exact use case, the direction the application is moving in the future, etc

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[PASCUAL Eric]

Hi,

If the JSON is related to a data model, and if this model is elaborated and subject to evolution in the furure, Django can help a lot. Add Django RESTFramework to the combo to take care of the REST stuff.

If not, I'd suggest Falcon (https://falconframework.org/), which is a light and very efficient framework made for developing REST based services. I've used it quite a lot for writing micro-services of a complex platform. Services working with data models are developed on top of Django. The other ones are Falcon based.

Falcon - Bare-metal web API framework for Python falconframework.org Extended Test. Falcon was also benchmarked under CPython 3.6 with a more realistic scenario, in which the routing table had multiple entries, the query string contained percent-encoded characters, and several complex response headers were set in the response.

Hope this helps

Eric

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[Charley Paulus]

Hi Eric,

Yes that helps a lot.
I have data models and related DB.
I’ll go with Django.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Charley

[PASCUAL Eric]

Hi Charley,

You should not regret this choice.

Sometimes Django seems a bit overkill at the first glance. But most of the times, once the project has made some progress you'll quickly appreciate the fact it is like Python : batteries included. No need to hunt for external add-ons which will integrate more or less easily when it comes to take care of CORS, CSRF, sessions, I18N,... All is already here for free. I could verify this on a Flask based project : you're left alone when time comes for you to find the right LEGO blocks and make then fit together. Django creators have already made this for you, and they're very smart people.

And of course the default Django configuration can be optimized by removing middlewares and features you don't need to cut it down to the strict necessary. So, why bother ?

Regards

Eric

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[Vineet Kothari]

You can use falcon/flask if you only want to create api as these are minimalistic frameworks and very easy to understand

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