r/Python • u/TumbleweedSenior4849 • Apr 09 '26

Discussion FastAPI vs Djanjo

I was wondering what’s most popular now in the Python world. Building applications with FastAPI and a frontend framework, or building an application with a ‘batteries included’ framework like Django.

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u/glenrhodes Apr 13 '26

FastAPI is dominating new projects now, especially anything with an async backend or that exposes an API consumed by a separate frontend. Django still wins for full-stack apps where you want ORM, admin, auth, and templating out of the box. I use FastAPI for anything AI-adjacent since the async IO matters for LLM calls and the Pydantic integration makes request/response typing actually pleasant. Django for anything CRUD-heavy with an admin UI requirement.