Django is an amazing web framework that comes with everything you need, and makes it easy to turn off the stuff you don't.
In the case of Paperless, I needed a simple way to build a site that had a pre-built "CRUD" interface, and that's the Django admin. Django also supports things like management commands and signals, which we use throughout the project along with its built-in testing framework.
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