Django vs Node JS

Frameworks exist to save you from having to reinvent the wheel and to help alleviate some of the overhead when you’re building a new site. By using a framework instead, these components are already built, you just need to configure them properly to match your site. The two best frameworks are Django and Node JS.

In this post, we discuss them and find the differences between Node JS and Django.

Django

Django is a free and open source web application framework, written in Python. A web framework is a set of components that help you to develop websites faster and easier. When you're building a website, you always need a similar set of components: a way to handle user authentication (signing up, signing in, signing out), a management panel for your website, forms, a way to upload files, etc. It's a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Django was created in the fall of 2003, when the web programmers at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper, Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison, began using Python to build applications. It was released publicly under a BSD license in July 2005. The framework was named after guitarist Django Reinhardt. In June 2008, it was announced that a newly formed Django Software Foundation (DSF) would maintain Django in the future.

Node JS

Node.js is a server-side platform built on Google Chrome's JavaScript Engine (V8 Engine). Node.js was developed by Ryan Dahl in 2009. It's an open source, a cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side and networking applications. Node.js applications are written in JavaScript and can be run within the Node.js runtime on OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. It also provides a rich library of various JavaScript modules which simplifies the development of web applications using Node.js to a great extent.

Django vs Node JS

• Django is an open source web framework. Node JS is an open source and JS runtime environment.

• Django prevents most common security threats.

• When you're using Node.JS, you'll find that the system gives you more space and freedom when it comes to building a range of apps. Node.JS is entirely unopinionated, which allows you to build whatever you want from scratch.

• Django was programmed in Python. Node JS was written in C, C++, and JavaScript

• Django has a great learning curve. Node.js is simple, straight and easy to learn.

• Django template system by default escapes variables unless they are explicitly marked as safe. It uses built-in ORM, thus there is no risk of SQL injection.

• Django is less scalable. on the other hand, Node JS is more scalable comparatively.

• Django follows the Model template View architecture. And Node JS follows the event-driven programming.

• Django web application development is really stable. Node.js system mainly lacks in stability.

• Django performance is better. Node JS performance is good.

• Django is more complex. In contrast, Node JS is less complex than Django.

• Django is new and behind Node.js in usage. Node JS is used widely in many countries and ahead comparatively.

• Django is easy to learn if the developer knows Python. Otherwise, it is very complex to learn. Node.js is easy to learn if the individual knows JavaScript.

• Django is not mainly referred to as Full stack web development. Node.js is getting popular, because of which full stack java is now a reality that developers can write code for backend and front-end applications.

• Django makes the development more efficient and cost-effective. Node.js makes development easy but it slows down the process.

• Django by default uses PBKDF2, another option is bcrypt. Both are resilient to the usage of rainbow tables, both have significant compute time to prevent easy brute force.

• Django has a lot of features that enrich this framework for developers like content development, sitemaps, and user authentication. Node.js has also great features like non-blocking input-output.

• Django is mainly used for large applications and support multi-

• threading programming. Node.js does not support multi-threading programming and not ideal for running large calculations.

• Django has few communities for support. Node.js community is very active that helps the programmers to improve themselves and provides the solution and improving the framework as well.

 

Both tools are great for building web applications, however, there are uses cases where each stands out. Choose whatever tool best suits your needs, both tools are powerful for web development. Since developers should always be learning, understanding the elements of both options could be the best way to make sure you stay competitive in today's marketplace.

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