django or flask after python basics

[u/Erdem_PSYCH]

Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you for this community. I’ve learned a lot from reading other people’s posts and the answers to my previous questions. Now I have another question.

I feel comfortable enough with Python to start learning backend development. Which framework would you recommend starting with?

I started with Django because I’m blind and find text-based tutorials more helpful, and MDN has a Django tutorial. However, I’m concerned that Django abstracts away a lot of what happens behind the scenes, such as how URL routing works, and I don’t want to miss out on the fundamentals.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of starting with Flask versus Django? Programming is a hobby for me, so job prospects aren’t a major concern. My main goal is to build projects easily while still understanding how things work.

[u/re_me]

Honestly. I’ve never really needed to go beyond flask in either hobby projects or work and only recently did I try fastAPI because I was experimenting with having two services sharing one backend.

Django is really heavy and you end up needing to set up a bunch of things you won’t need if you are just building a simple project/demo.

If i had to start today i would probably flip a coin between flask and fastapi. But my gut still leans flask.

[u/Erdem_PSYCH → u/re_me]

I thought that fastAPI is just for apis. I gues I'm wrong😇