In the interest of learning new (new-ish I guess since it's not really a new language?) things, I've been working through some introductory #rubyonrails guides. It really makes me wish #python had a built-in template project like "rails new" that creates all the default config settings and files rather than having to build all that from scratch. Unless it has that and I just missed it along the way?
@wxheather Django! https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/intro/tutorial01/
I am thinking about writing a backend for my website so I can do some kinda blogging while I am finishing my undergrad.
@brandonb_phy @wxheather you may also be interested in cookiecutter templates.
* https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/stable/README.html#available-cookiecutters
* https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
@mattkram @brandonb_phy This might be what I'm looking for! Thank you!
@brandonb_phy Thanks! I've heard of Django but never spent a ton of time trying to use it. Is it mainly built for support web applications or can it be used for python projects that are for non-web purposes?
@wxheather You know I'm not too sure, I think if you just return back data from the controller instead of HTML it can function how you like. I would defer to @mattkram I haven't personally used it before, they might know more.
@brandonb_phy @wxheather unfortunately I don't actually have much #django experience. I did some early tutorials but all my web work has used #flask, #fastapi, and #paneldata.
Django is certainly the most complete web framework that I'm aware of, but the right app framework definitely depends on the use case. If you're doing data apps in python I definitely recommend a look at https://panel.holoviz.org/ , from some of my colleagues at #anaconda (and community).
@brandonb_phy @wxheather came here to say this. I think the most comparable framework in the #Python ecosystem is #django.
#python ~= #ruby
#django ~= #rails