richardolsson

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   by richardolsson 12y ago

   React is a component based UI framework, so I find it natural that common components that might exist in some other framework need to be re-created for React. IMO, the fact that React components can be easily shared with an interface that f
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   by richardolsson 12y ago

   The biggest reason would be that you're building a REST API and you want something tailored for that use case. If you're not building a REST API (but instead for example a web site serving HTML and whatnot), you shouldn't use
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   by richardolsson 12y ago

   Django is a "web framework", for creating web sites. Falcon is a "REST API" framework, for creating APIs following the REST pattern. Flask is less clear (or "opinionated") as to what it should be used for, and
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   by richardolsson 12y ago

   I've recently started using Falcon, and also contributed some code to it (e.g. an even faster router which generates and compiles python code representing the URI tree). The main benefit for me, and the reason why I chose Falcon over o