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Django REST framework vs Tornado: What are the differences?
What is Django REST framework? Web APIs for Django. Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
What is Tornado? A Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user.
Django REST framework and Tornado are primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" and "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools respectively.
"Browsable api" is the primary reason why developers consider Django REST framework over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Tornado.
Django REST framework and Tornado are both open source tools. Tornado with 17.9K GitHub stars and 4.97K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Django REST framework with 14.5K GitHub stars and 4.29K GitHub forks.
AX Semantics, Crowdkeep, and Shippo are some of the popular companies that use Django REST framework, whereas Tornado is used by cloudControl, dotCloud, and Facebook. Django REST framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 159 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Tornado, which is listed in 69 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.
I have just started learning Python 3 weeks ago. I want to create a REST API using python. The API will be used to save form data in an Oracle database. The front end is using AngularJS 8 with Angular Material. In python, there are so many frameworks to develop REST APIs.
I am looking for some suggestions which REST framework to choose?
Here are some features I am looking for:
Easy integration and unit testing, like in Angular. We just want to run a command.
Code packaging, like in java maven project we can build and package. I am looking for something which I can push in as an artifact and deploy whole code as a package.
Support for swagger/ OpenAPI
Support for JSON Web Token
Support for test case coverage report
Framework can have features included or can be available by extension. Also, you can suggest a framework other than the ones I have mentioned.
For starters flask provides a beautiful and easy way to create REST APIs. Also its supported by excellent beginner docs as well as a very active community. Another good thing with Flask is its widely available list of plugins which allow you to build as you go. Its also good in performance and can scale to a quite decent level. However, if you are sure your project is going to be fairly big, it would be better to start with Django as it provides a lot of features out of the box and is extremely stable in performance. Both these frameworks have support for Swagger, JWT, Coverage Report although you have to install plugins for them. Deploying both of these are fairly simple and there is huge documentation available. Django has one of the best documentations I have come across. I hope I was able to answer your queries.
Pros of Django REST framework
- Easy to use66
- Browsable api65
- Great documentation53
- Customizable50
- Fast development42
- Easy to use, customizable, pluggable, serializer9
- Python8
- Django ORM7
- FastSerialize5
- Less code3
- Easy implementation2
Pros of Tornado
- Open source37
- So fast31
- Great for microservices architecture27
- Websockets20
- Simple17
- Asynchronous14
- Python11
- Lightweight7
- Handles well persistent connexions3
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Cons of Django REST framework
- Bad documentation2
- Reimplements Django functionality2
- No support for URL Namespaces1
- Bad CSRF handling0
Cons of Tornado
- Event loop is complicated2
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