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qtipee edited this page Feb 26, 2020 · 1 revision

Backend technologies comparison

What is the most appropriate programming language for this project backend application ?

Programming Language

JavaScript (Node.js)

  • Better performance than Django
  • Event driven programming
  • Huge number of connections, but small messages
  • Real-time data
  • Not good when complexe CPU calculations are needed

Python (Django)

  • More scalable than Node.js
  • Model-Template-View architecture
  • Better security (against CSRF, SQL injection, ...)
  • Supports ORM and is better with CRUD-heavy operations than Node.js

Summary

Django seems to be a better choice than Node.js for this project, which is mostly a Relational-Database-CRUD application. Furthermore, Django is also a great choice when developing an API backend application.

Nodes.js is powerful when dealing with real-time applications and sending small messages.

Framework (Django or Flask)

Django seems to be a better choice than Flask, because of the following reasons :

  • Powerful ORM
  • Support for generating and managing database migrations
  • Includes by default CRUD operations
  • Auth
  • Account management
  • Admin panel for CRUD operations
  • Includes by default form validation (with security against CSRF, XSS, SQL injection)
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