Django vs Meteor vs Tornado

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Django

36.9K
33.3K
+ 1
4.2K
Meteor

1.9K
1.8K
+ 1
1.7K
Tornado

436
407
+ 1
167
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Pros of Django
Pros of Meteor
Pros of Tornado
  • 670
    Rapid development
  • 487
    Open source
  • 424
    Great community
  • 379
    Easy to learn
  • 276
    Mvc
  • 232
    Beautiful code
  • 223
    Elegant
  • 206
    Free
  • 203
    Great packages
  • 194
    Great libraries
  • 79
    Comes with auth and crud admin panel
  • 79
    Restful
  • 78
    Powerful
  • 75
    Great documentation
  • 71
    Great for web
  • 57
    Python
  • 43
    Great orm
  • 41
    Great for api
  • 32
    All included
  • 29
    Fast
  • 25
    Web Apps
  • 23
    Easy setup
  • 23
    Clean
  • 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
    Fast prototyping
  • 8
    Mvt
  • 7
    Easy to develop end to end AI Models
  • 7
    Batteries included
  • 7
    Its elegant and practical
  • 6
    Have not found anything that it can't do
  • 6
    Very quick to get something up and running
  • 6
    Cross-Platform
  • 5
    Easy Structure , useful inbuilt library
  • 5
    Great peformance
  • 5
    Zero code burden to change databases
  • 5
    Python community
  • 4
    Map
  • 4
    Just the right level of abstraction
  • 4
    Easy to change database manager
  • 4
    Modular
  • 4
    Many libraries
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 4
    Easy
  • 4
    Full-Text Search
  • 3
    Scaffold
  • 1
    Fastapi
  • 1
    Built in common security
  • 1
    Scalable
  • 1
    Great default admin panel
  • 1
    Node js
  • 1
    Gigante ta
  • 0
    Rails
  • 252
    Real-time
  • 200
    Full stack, one language
  • 183
    Best app dev platform available today
  • 155
    Data synchronization
  • 152
    Javascript
  • 118
    Focus on your product not the plumbing
  • 107
    Hot code pushes
  • 106
    Open source
  • 102
    Live page updates
  • 92
    Latency compensation
  • 39
    Ultra-simple development environment
  • 29
    Real time awesome
  • 29
    Smart Packages
  • 23
    Great for beginners
  • 22
    Direct Cordova integration
  • 16
    Better than Rails
  • 15
    Less moving parts
  • 13
    It's just amazing
  • 10
    Blaze
  • 8
    Great community support
  • 8
    Plugins for everything
  • 6
    One command spits out android and ios ready apps.
  • 5
    It just works
  • 5
    0 to Production in no time
  • 4
    Coding Speed
  • 4
    Easy deployment
  • 4
    Is Agile in development hybrid(mobile/web)
  • 4
    You can grok it in a day. No ng nonsense
  • 2
    Easy yet powerful
  • 2
    AngularJS Integration
  • 2
    One Code => 3 Platforms: Web, Android and IOS
  • 2
    Community
  • 1
    Easy Setup
  • 1
    Free
  • 1
    Nosql
  • 1
    Hookie friendly
  • 1
    High quality, very few bugs
  • 1
    Stack available on Codeanywhere
  • 1
    Real time
  • 1
    Friendly to use
  • 37
    Open source
  • 31
    So fast
  • 27
    Great for microservices architecture
  • 20
    Websockets
  • 17
    Simple
  • 14
    Asynchronous
  • 11
    Python
  • 7
    Lightweight
  • 3
    Handles well persistent connexions

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Cons of Django
Cons of Meteor
Cons of Tornado
  • 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
  • 5
    Does not scale well
  • 4
    Hard to debug issues on the server-side
  • 4
    Heavily CPU bound
  • 2
    Event loop is complicated

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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 Meteor?

A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.

What is Tornado?

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.

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