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djangae vs React Native Firebase: What are the differences?
djangae: The best way to run Django on Google App Engine. Djangae (djan-gee) is a Django app that allows you to run Django applications on Google App Engine, including (if you want to) using Django's models with the App Engine Datastore as the underlying database; React Native Firebase: A well tested Firebase implementation for React Native, supporting both iOS & Android apps. RNFirebase is a light-weight layer sitting on-top of the native Firebase libraries for both iOS and Android which mirrors the Firebase Web SDK as closely as possible.
djangae and React Native Firebase belong to "Platform as a Service Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by djangae are:
- A WSGI middleware that provides a clean way via which your Django app is plugged into App Engine.
- A hook to allow App Engine's deferred tasks and mapreduce handlers to run through the same environment.
- The ability to use use the Datastore as the database for Django's models. See The Database Backend for details. You can also use App Engine's NDB, or you can use Google Cloud SQL (via the standard django MySQL backend) instead of or along side the Datastore. Or use all 3!
On the other hand, React Native Firebase provides the following key features:
- firebase
- analytics
- push-notifications
djangae and React Native Firebase are both open source tools. React Native Firebase with 5.7K GitHub stars and 887 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than djangae with 531 GitHub stars and 118 GitHub forks.
Pros of djangae
Pros of React Native Firebase
- Feature-rich2
- Well supported2