Django REST framework vs NativeScript

Django REST framework vs NativeScript: What are the differences?

Django REST framework: Web APIs for Django. Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs; NativeScript: Build truly native apps with JavaScript. NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.

Django REST framework can be classified as a tool in the "Microframeworks (Backend)" category, while NativeScript is grouped under "Cross-Platform Mobile Development".

Some of the features offered by Django REST framework are:

• The Web browsable API is a huge usability win for your developers.
• Authentication policies including OAuth1a and OAuth2 out of the box.
• Serialization that supports both ORM and non-ORM data sources.

On the other hand, NativeScript provides the following key features:

• 100% Access to Native Platform API
• NativeScript is free of charge as an open source project
• Code with JavaScript. Style with CSS

"Browsable api" is the primary reason why developers consider Django REST framework over the competitors, whereas "Access to the entire native api" was stated as the key factor in picking NativeScript.

Django REST framework and NativeScript are both open source tools. It seems that NativeScript with 17.1K GitHub stars and 1.26K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Django REST framework with 14.5K GitHub stars and 4.29K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Django REST framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 159 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to NativeScript, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 23 developer stacks.