django-ninja

I can't recommend django-ninja enough. It's an easy to use, extremely fast, typed API for django. I've found it to be better in almost all aspects when compared to djangorestframework. It's gaining popularity but is still widely unknown. https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja

Very useful, especially since CBV have terrible ergonomics. They have hidden code path, state and flow everywhere in their thousands methods, MRO to follow, they are verbose and hard to debug (good luck putting a breakpoint in the right place). I miss generic function views, but you can almost use CBV like them: in your view fuction, do "return YourCBV.as_view(params)" and you are good to go. Much easier than subclassing. Of course, with FastAPI, we know that there an even better API for that: DI. It's more composable, easier to follow, to test and with less side effects. django-ninja (https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja/) already offers a lot of that for Django, and I hope it will become a huge success. It is however, currently thinking of using classes somewhere to reuse init view code, so I made a proposal to extend the API design

At this point I disagree - DRF is a verbose and somewhat dated architecture. I wish they would provide something like Django Ninja / FastAPI. Plus it already has decent async support. https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja

If anyone's looking something close to FastAPI but for Django, checkout django-ninja [1][2]. I recently joined a team that uses it, and it's pretty nice so far. [1] https://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/ [2] https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja

You may want to keep an eye on https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja Its still a bit young, but I like a lot of what they are doing. As for Instagram, I wonder if they replaced the ORM with their own in-house ORM or something else?

You might want to check out https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja. I much prefer it over restframework.