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Chapter: Web development with Python
Lecture: Choosing a framework
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With all those framework options
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which one should you choose?
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Well, it's not too hard.
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If you want a traditional web framework
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then probably Flask is the way to go.
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Maybe Django, probably Flask.
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Like I said, Flask seems to have a little bit momentum
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and what you'll find is a lot of the more modern frameworks
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have adopted Flask's API
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but they make some slight variation on it.
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Here are some survey results from
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The Python Software Foundation
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in conjunction with JetBrains, a developer tools company.
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And they did a survey, the biggest survey
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of the Python dDeveloper space, in 2018.
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They also did it this year
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but we don't yet have the results
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so we're going to look up the year before.
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Notice how Flask is ahead
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and this call that I have on the right here is that
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surprisingly, Flask has grown by 15%
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usage among people who answered.
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So, that's pretty awesome.
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Django also is still very popular
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you can see my Pyramid is in here.
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And there's some other things
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Hug, Falcon, Bottle and so on.
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You don't even see Starlette or FastAPI, do you?
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I believe those were either entirely too new
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and when they did this survey, they weren't even born yet
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they weren't created yet.
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Or, if they were, they were very, very new
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and they weren't popular enough to make it onto this list.
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So which one should you choose?
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Well, if you want a traditional web framework
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like I said, Flask
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unless your organization is all about Django
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then just go with Django. That's totally good.
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If you need something scalable
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or you want something more modern
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look at things like Starlette and FastAPI, and possibly Sanic.
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But, I'd probably start with Starlette.
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It seems to be the foundation of so many of these things.
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And, yeah, it's, it's really good.
