Django Channels vs MEAN: What are the differences?

What is Django Channels? It extends Django's abilities beyond HTTP - to handle WebSockets, chat protocols, IoT protocols. It does this by taking the core of Django and adding a fully asynchronous layer underneath, running Django itself in a synchronous mode but handling connections and sockets asynchronously, and giving you the choice to write in either style.

What is MEAN? A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for full stack javascript web development. MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) is a boilerplate that provides a nice starting point for MongoDB, Node.js, Express, and AngularJS based applications. It is designed to give you a quick and organized way to start developing MEAN based web apps with useful modules like Mongoose and Passport pre-bundled and configured.

Django Channels and MEAN can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Django Channels and MEAN are both open source tools. It seems that MEAN with 11.8K GitHub stars and 3.58K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Django Channels with 3.94K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, MEAN has a broader approval, being mentioned in 55 company stacks & 245 developers stacks; compared to Django Channels, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.