Hi, I've been working with relatively large (GIS) apps that do use ExtJS and Django.
What comes to ExtJS and it's "REST" that is pure joke. It's not even close what REST should be. There is even long standing thread on ExtJS forums about having better support for REST but I guess it's totally 2nd class citizen in ExtJS world. But we chose ExtJS because it's components, specially grids and trees are pretty much best you can get for the money. And as ExtJS is purely Javascript framework it doesn't have anything to do with actually Django, which is server side Web framework, written with Python. What comes to Django it's development speed. You can evaluate and iterate development much faster in Django than in Java (at least in my experience). With development server just change something, go browser and refresh. With django-rest-framework (the big gun for REST apis in Django) you can even develop rest services without having special frontend for that - drf provides nice html API tool that makes developing (and even testing) faster - while you're building and testing your API you can have your frontend devs to do that. And that's where Django and Python excels. Also Django has rather extensive set of tools that are crafted to work with web and database. ORM, Admin (which is valuable tool while developing), basic user system, authentication and authorization, permissions, form handling and data validation, and much more. On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 06:55:57 -0800 (PST) Joris Benschop <joris.bensc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > I;m a data maangement specialist in a rather large multinational. I'm > trying to push Django as a fast development framework for front-end > applications of our databases. Currently the company is focusing on Sencha > ExtJS and java solutions. Can you help me with pointers why Django is > better? The free-as-in-beer argument is not very convincing by itself. > > Thanks > Joris > > -- > 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/53e17853-9922-4f77-bf9a-4cea7d35ade3%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Jani Tiainen -- 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/20150608142228.5075be9b%40jns42-l.w2k.keypro.fi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
