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Buffalo vs Django Channels: What are the differences?

What is Buffalo? MVC Web Framework for Go. Buffalo is Go web framework. Yeah, I hate the word "framework" too! Buffalo is different though. Buffalo doesn't want to re-invent wheels like routing and templating. Buffalo is glue that wraps all of the best packages available and makes them all play nicely together.

What is Django Channels? It extends Django's abilities beyond HTTP - to handle WebSockets, chat protocols, IoT protocols. It does this by taking the core of Django and adding a fully asynchronous layer underneath, running Django itself in a synchronous mode but handling connections and sockets asynchronously, and giving you the choice to write in either style.

Buffalo and Django Channels belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

Buffalo and Django Channels are both open source tools. It seems that Buffalo with 4.77K GitHub stars and 369 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Django Channels with 3.94K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Django Channels has a broader approval, being mentioned in 10 company stacks & 6 developers stacks; compared to Buffalo, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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What is Buffalo?

Buffalo is Go web framework. Yeah, I hate the word "framework" too! Buffalo is different though. Buffalo doesn't want to re-invent wheels like routing and templating. Buffalo is glue that wraps all of the best packages available and makes them all play nicely together.

What is Django Channels?

It does this by taking the core of Django and adding a fully asynchronous layer underneath, running Django itself in a synchronous mode but handling connections and sockets asynchronously, and giving you the choice to write in either style.

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