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Pros of Django
Pros of ExpressJS
Pros of Rails
  • 673
    Rapid development
  • 487
    Open source
  • 425
    Great community
  • 379
    Easy to learn
  • 277
    Mvc
  • 232
    Beautiful code
  • 223
    Elegant
  • 207
    Free
  • 203
    Great packages
  • 194
    Great libraries
  • 80
    Comes with auth and crud admin panel
  • 79
    Restful
  • 78
    Powerful
  • 76
    Great documentation
  • 72
    Great for web
  • 57
    Python
  • 43
    Great orm
  • 41
    Great for api
  • 32
    All included
  • 29
    Fast
  • 25
    Web Apps
  • 23
    Clean
  • 23
    Easy setup
  • 21
    Used by top startups
  • 19
    Sexy
  • 19
    ORM
  • 15
    The Django community
  • 14
    Allows for very rapid development with great libraries
  • 14
    Convention over configuration
  • 11
    King of backend world
  • 10
    Full stack
  • 10
    Great MVC and templating engine
  • 8
    Mvt
  • 8
    Fast prototyping
  • 7
    Its elegant and practical
  • 7
    Easy to develop end to end AI Models
  • 7
    Batteries included
  • 6
    Have not found anything that it can't do
  • 6
    Very quick to get something up and running
  • 6
    Cross-Platform
  • 5
    Zero code burden to change databases
  • 5
    Great peformance
  • 5
    Python community
  • 5
    Easy Structure , useful inbuilt library
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 4
    Map
  • 4
    Easy to change database manager
  • 4
    Full-Text Search
  • 4
    Just the right level of abstraction
  • 4
    Many libraries
  • 4
    Modular
  • 4
    Easy
  • 3
    Scaffold
  • 1
    Node js
  • 1
    Built in common security
  • 1
    Great default admin panel
  • 1
    Scalable
  • 1
    Cons
  • 1
    Gigante ta
  • 1
    Fastapi
  • 0
    Rails
  • 381
    Simple
  • 336
    Node.js
  • 244
    Javascript
  • 193
    High performance
  • 152
    Robust routing
  • 73
    Middlewares
  • 72
    Open source
  • 59
    Great community
  • 37
    Hybrid web applications
  • 16
    Well documented
  • 9
    Sinatra inspired
  • 9
    Rapid development
  • 7
    Isomorphic js.. superfast and easy
  • 7
    Socket connection
  • 5
    Light weight
  • 4
    Npm
  • 4
    Resource available for learning
  • 3
    Callbacks
  • 3
    Event loop
  • 2
    Data stream
  • 1
    Easy to use
  • 858
    Rapid development
  • 652
    Great gems
  • 606
    Great community
  • 484
    Convention over configuration
  • 417
    Mvc
  • 348
    Great for web
  • 343
    Beautiful code
  • 311
    Open source
  • 270
    Great libraries
  • 261
    Active record
  • 108
    Elegant
  • 90
    Easy to learn
  • 88
    Easy Database Migrations
  • 82
    Makes you happy
  • 75
    Free
  • 62
    Great routing
  • 54
    Has everything you need to get the job done
  • 41
    Great Data Modeling
  • 38
    MVC - Easy to start on
  • 38
    Beautiful
  • 35
    Easy setup
  • 26
    Great caching
  • 25
    Ultra rapid development time
  • 22
    It's super easy
  • 17
    Great Resources
  • 16
    Easy to build mockups that work
  • 14
    Less Boilerplate
  • 7
    Developer Friendly
  • 7
    API Development
  • 6
    Great documentation
  • 5
    Easy REST API creation
  • 5
    Quick
  • 4
    Intuitive
  • 4
    Great language
  • 4
    Haml and sass
  • 4
    Easy to learn, use, improvise and update
  • 2
    Metaprogramming
  • 2
    It works
  • 2
    Jet packs come standard
  • 2
    Easy and fast
  • 2
    Legacy
  • 1
    It's intuitive
  • 1
    Convention over configuration
  • 1
    Easy Testing
  • 1
    Cancan

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Cons of Django
Cons of ExpressJS
Cons of Rails
  • 26
    Underpowered templating
  • 22
    Autoreload restarts whole server
  • 22
    Underpowered ORM
  • 15
    URL dispatcher ignores HTTP method
  • 10
    Internal subcomponents coupling
  • 8
    Not nodejs
  • 8
    Configuration hell
  • 7
    Admin
  • 5
    Not as clean and nice documentation like Laravel
  • 4
    Python
  • 3
    Not typed
  • 3
    Bloated admin panel included
  • 2
    Overwhelming folder structure
  • 2
    InEffective Multithreading
  • 1
    Not type safe
  • 27
    Not python
  • 17
    Overrated
  • 14
    No multithreading
  • 9
    Javascript
  • 5
    Not fast
  • 3
    Easily Insecure for Novices
  • 24
    Too much "magic" (hidden behavior)
  • 14
    Poor raw performance
  • 12
    Asset system is too primitive and outdated
  • 6
    Heavy use of mixins
  • 6
    Bloat in models
  • 4
    Very Very slow

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What is Django?

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

What is ExpressJS?

Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.

What is Rails?

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

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