FastAPI gets the buzz. Django still wins the projects.
What Django gives you for free
- ORM — type-safe, mature, with migrations that work
- Admin panel — a usable CRUD UI for your models in 5 minutes
- Auth — users, sessions, permissions, password resets
- Forms — validation, CSRF, rendering
- Templates — server-side rendering when you don't need an SPA
2024 Django stack
- Django 5.x with async views
- Django REST Framework or Django Ninja for APIs
- HTMX for sprinkles of interactivity without React
- Tailwind for styling
- Celery for background jobs
- Postgres for everything
Bottom line
Django is the most boring, productive Python web framework. For SaaS dashboards, content platforms and internal tools, it's a quiet force multiplier.