thinking of forms as a model that can be rendered is really valuable IMO. most UXes would be 10x easier to write if we had better standardization around the 'schema to UX' step
'form first UX' would also reduce the work of building cross-platform apps
guessing django is ramping up on its AJAX, but I think a real forms standard would need to understand AJAX -- users aren't going to remember to scroll down to a 'save' button. realtime validation also an AJAX issue, typeahead as well.
Yes, we are trying to move over to FastAPI, which looks reasonable, but I struggle with the fact that there is no one source of truth for models.
Is there anywhere good to find out what I have been missing out on having not kept up to date with Djano for the last few years? I really miss using it and am looking for a job using it again.
I'm on fastapi with my current project -- I love the powerful type support for interfaces.
I'm using tortoise as my ORM; it feels like sqlmodels is worth exploring as an alternative -- sqlmodels is designed to integrate well with pydantic (so you DRY in messages) and with sqlalchemy (so you get their migration support).
I'm not sure if there's a fastapi / pydantic tool for generating form UX, but it might be doable to write one if not. (though styling could be tricky).
I notice myself still spending a lot of time writing basic CRUD routes. I don't know if this is a tools issue or just unavoidable.
I'm open to a tool like postgraphile to automate API on top of a DB schema, but I'm worried about the loss of control over messages, RBAC, and query design. I wish there were a python tool for mostly-declarative API route stubs -- would be simple to customize, and the purely-declarative routes could be shipped off to a postgraphile-like tool in the future.
I wish fastapi had better auth built in, but then again I wish this about django too -- I feel like I'm endlessly shopping for a third-party user auth server and haven't found it yet. Auth + admin were a huge investment at the beginning of my project, and in retrospect feels wasted.
thinking of forms as a model that can be rendered is really valuable IMO. most UXes would be 10x easier to write if we had better standardization around the 'schema to UX' step
'form first UX' would also reduce the work of building cross-platform apps
guessing django is ramping up on its AJAX, but I think a real forms standard would need to understand AJAX -- users aren't going to remember to scroll down to a 'save' button. realtime validation also an AJAX issue, typeahead as well.