Backend

Javascript still needs its Rails/Django equivalent. Next.js has empowered a bunch of frontend devs to build fullstack applications, but there’s a ton of footguns and the flexibility still has people floundering in problems long-solved by other frameworks.

Head of Product Engineering @polymarket prev: @rainbow, Truework ● 1/3 of rectanglefactory.com ● nickbytes.com

what are the problems you’re thinking of?

This sums up pretty well https://warpcast.com/leewardbound/0xf777db

How do you write frontend with django? Does it have its own templating or can you just hook it into react?

Personally I hate the templating and html and form handling in Django - I use Django as a strict backend layer for API development (formerly Django-rest-framework, now graphene for gql), and I build frontends in Nextjs + react, which are very adept at frontend concerns (SEO, hydration, routing, query loading, etc)

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net - eng @daylight

Absolutely cannot vouch strongly enough for the django+gql+react pattern, it feels like cheat codes - all the best backend tools coupled with a strongly typed API, means you get a best-in-class frontend experience with 95% of the full end-to-end typing experience that the "Full-stack JS" crowd boasts about