On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 4:29:00 AM UTC-8, Xiangyu Wu wrote: > > Hello, > > Shall I use Django for backend and frontend or is it a good idea to use > Angular JS for frontend and Django for backend. What are the advantages and > disadvantages? >
Doing this means using Django as basically a JSON generator. And that generally means integrating something like Django REST Framework or Tastypie. Advantages: - If you want to build both a standard site and a smartphone native app that talk to the same back-end, you're ahead of the game - If you have plans for rich client-side interactions, Angular is a great choice Disadvantages: - Your developers now have to learn and maintain two frameworks rather than one. Angular has a fairly steep learning curve once you get past the basics. - You are discarding a ton of productivity tools and abilities that come with Django. For example the ability to follow relations between models via dot notation. Basically, you are adding complexity and slowing down development time by adopting the SPA approach. You should have a very good reason for doing that. ./s -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/e4da656e-dd62-47af-97ea-413c2db97d41%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
