Django Channels vs NestJS: 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 NestJS? A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications by @kammysliwiec. Nest is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications. It uses progressive JavaScript, is built with TypeScript (preserves compatibility with pure JavaScript) and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming)
Under the hood, Nest makes use of Express, but also, provides compatibility with a wide range of other libraries, like e.g. Fastify, allowing for easy use of the myriad third-party plugins which are available..
Django Channels and NestJS can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Django Channels and NestJS are both open source tools. NestJS with 18.3K GitHub stars and 1.31K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Django Channels with 3.94K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, NestJS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 19 company stacks & 69 developers stacks; compared to Django Channels, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
