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Flask vs Twisted: What are the differences?

What is Flask? a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.

What is Twisted? Event-driven networking engine written in Python. Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the open source ​MIT license. Twisted runs on Python 2 and an ever growing subset also works with Python 3. Twisted also supports many common network protocols, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SSHv2, and DNS.

Flask belongs to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack, while Twisted can be primarily classified under "Frameworks (Full Stack)".

"Lightweight" is the primary reason why developers consider Flask over the competitors, whereas "Easy-to-understand concurrency" was stated as the key factor in picking Twisted.

Flask and Twisted are both open source tools. Flask with 45.2K GitHub stars and 12.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Twisted with 3.44K GitHub stars and 878 GitHub forks.

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kristan-dev
Senior Solutions Analyst · | 8 upvotes · 140K views
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Flask
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Django REST framework
in

My journey to developing REST APIs started with Flask Restful, and I've found it to be enough for the needs of my project back then. Now that I've started investing more time on personal projects, I've yet to decide if I should move to use Django for writing REST APIs. I often see job posts looking for Python+Django developers, but it's usually for full-stack developers. I'm primarily interested in Data Engineering, so most of my web projects are back end.

Should I continue with what I know (Flask) or move on to Django?

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Rafael Torres
Technical Lead at 4Agile · | 9 upvotes · 130.8K views
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Django REST framework

If you want to be a Web developer with knowledge in another frontend and NoSql technology, maybe continue with Flask. However, if you want to create very fast solutions to grow up with a new business and merge these with data analysis and other tools, Django is the answer. Basically read more about the service architecture where you feel more comfortable, Microservice or Monolithic, but please will not married with any because they solve issues to different contexts.

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Girish Sharma
Software Engineer at FireVisor Systems · | 6 upvotes · 107.4K views
Needs advice
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Nameko
Flask
and
Bottle

Which is the best Python framework for microservices?

We are using Nameko for building microservices in Python. The things we really like are dependency injection and the ease with which one can expose endpoints via RPC over RabbitMQ. We are planning to try a tool that helps us write polyglot microservices and nameko is not super compatible with it. Also, we are a bit worried about the not so good community support from nameko and looking for a python alternate to write microservices.

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FedericoCeratto
| 1 upvotes · 82.1K views
Recommends
Bottle

Bottle is much less bloated and fast. Its built-in templating system is one of the fastest as it compiles the templates in bytecode. Also Bottle has no depenencies, preventing dependency bloat.

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Saurav Pandit
Application Devloper at Bny Mellon · | 5 upvotes · 105.1K views
Needs advice
on
Django REST framework
Flask
and
Pyramid

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.

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Sourav Basu
| 6 upvotes · 100.1K views
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Flask
at

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.

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Pros of Flask
Pros of Twisted
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    Lightweight
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    Python
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    Minimal
  • 142
    Open source
  • 97
    Documentation
  • 65
    Easy to use
  • 53
    Easy to setup and get it going
  • 52
    Well designed
  • 47
    Easy to develop and maintain applications
  • 44
    Easy to get started
  • 16
    Beautiful code
  • 15
    Rapid development
  • 13
    Powerful
  • 12
    Awesome
  • 12
    Expressive
  • 11
    Speed
  • 10
    Flexibilty
  • 10
    Love it
  • 9
    Easy to integrate
  • 9
    Get started quickly
  • 9
    Simple to use
  • 8
    For it flexibility
  • 8
    Perfect for small to large projects with superb docs.
  • 8
    Customizable
  • 7
    Flask
  • 7
    Flexibilty and easy to use
  • 7
    Productive
  • 6
    Not JS
  • 5
    Secured
  • 5
    User friendly
  • 4
    Unopinionated
  • 1
    Secure
  • 5
    Easy-to-understand concurrency
  • 3
    Twisted prevails
  • 1
    It works
  • 1
    Solid, flexible, powerful

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    Not JS
  • 7
    Context
  • 3
    Not fast
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    What is Flask?

    Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.

    What is Twisted?

    Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the open source ​MIT license. Twisted runs on Python 2 and an ever growing subset also works with Python 3. Twisted also supports many common network protocols, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SSHv2, and DNS.

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