Django REST framework vs Xamarin

Overview

Xamarin

Stacks1.3K

Followers1.5K

Votes785

Django REST framework

Stacks1.9K

Followers2.1K

Votes312

Django REST framework vs Xamarin: What are the differences?

What is Django REST framework? Web APIs for Django. Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

What is Xamarin? Create iOS, Android and Mac apps in C#. Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Django REST framework can be classified as a tool in the "Microframeworks (Backend)" category, while Xamarin 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, Xamarin provides the following key features:

Cross-platform development- Thinking about supporting iOS, Android, Mac and Windows? Xamarin allows you to write it all in C#.
Reuse existing code- Use your favorite .NET libraries in Xamarin apps. Easily use third-party native libraries and frameworks.
Discover as you type- Explore APIs as you type with code autocompletion.

"Browsable api" is the top reason why over 54 developers like Django REST framework, while over 111 developers mention "Power of c# on mobile devices" as the leading cause for choosing Xamarin.

Django REST framework is an open source tool with 14.5K GitHub stars and 4.29K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Django REST framework's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Django REST framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 159 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Xamarin, which is listed in 74 company stacks and 65 developer stacks.

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Advice on Xamarin, Django REST framework

Kristan Eres

Senior Solutions Analyst

Jul 30, 2020

Needs adviceon

Django

Python

Flask

My journey to developing REST APIs started with Flask Restful, and I've found it to be enough for the needs of my project back then. Now that I've started investing more time on personal projects, I've yet to decide if I should move to use Django for writing REST APIs. I often see job posts looking for Python+Django developers, but it's usually for full-stack developers. I'm primarily interested in Data Engineering, so most of my web projects are back end.

Should I continue with what I know (Flask) or move on to Django?

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Saurav

Application Devloper at Bny Mellon

Mar 27, 2020

Needs advice

I have just started learning Python 3 weeks ago. I want to create a REST API using python. The API will be used to save form data in an Oracle database. The front end is using AngularJS 8 with Angular Material. In python, there are so many frameworks to develop REST APIs.

I am looking for some suggestions which REST framework to choose?

Here are some features I am looking for:

Easy integration and unit testing, like in Angular. We just want to run a command.
Code packaging, like in java maven project we can build and package. I am looking for something which I can push in as an artifact and deploy whole code as a package.
Support for swagger/ OpenAPI
Support for JSON Web Token
Support for test case coverage report

Framework can have features included or can be available by extension. Also, you can suggest a framework other than the ones I have mentioned.

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zachary

Mar 9, 2020

Needs advice

I'm making a food building app. Would eventually like to create a supermarket of a shop. With 3 terminals for employee use and another one at a different location for employee use. Each employees location would have two separate designated computer screens with operation of reading orders ingredients and displaying in respective gui to the kitchen, from said Django cart with redis as a cookie for order ingredients as well as session ssl signed. A super corp. comp, with backup to that drive every time I issue a save command. Possible??

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Detailed Comparison

Xamarin	Django REST framework
Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.	It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
Cross-platform development- Thinking about supporting iOS, Android, Mac and Windows? Xamarin allows you to write it all in C#.;Reuse existing code- Use your favorite .NET libraries in Xamarin apps. Easily use third-party native libraries and frameworks.; Discover as you type- Explore APIs as you type with code autocompletion.;Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio- Create, build, debug, and deploy apps in Visual Studio. Or use Xamarin Studio, a fully-featured IDE that is built for mobile app development.;Native UI, Native Performance- Xamarin delivers high performance compiled code with full access to all the native APIs so you can create native apps with device-specific experiences.; Point and Click UI Design- Xamarin provides a world class Android UI designer. Use Apple Xcode UI designer to create interfaces and Storyboards that automatically sync with your Xamarin.iOS project.	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.;Customizable all the way down - just use regular function-based views if you don't need the more powerful features.;Extensive documentation, and great community support.;Used and trusted by large companies such as Mozilla and Eventbrite.
Statistics
Stacks 1.3K	Stacks 1.9K
Followers 1.5K	Followers 2.1K
Votes 785	Votes 312
Pros & Cons
Pros 121 Power of c# on mobile devices 81 Native performance 79 Native apps with native ui controls 73 No javascript - truely compiled code 67 Sharing more than 90% of code over all platforms Cons 9 Build times 5 Visual Studio 4 Price 3 Scalability 3 Complexity	Pros 67 Easy to use 65 Browsable api 53 Great documentation 51 Customizable 42 Fast development Cons 2 Bad documentation 2 Reimplements Django functionality 1 No support for URL Namespaces 0 Bad CSRF handling
Integrations
No integrations available	Rollbar Sentry Django Stream Kloudless

What are some alternatives to Xamarin, Django REST framework?

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

.NET

.NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

ASP.NET Core

A free and open-source web framework, and higher performance than ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.

ExpressJS

Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.

Flutter

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

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Django REST framework vs Xamarin: What are the differences?

What is Django REST framework? Web APIs for Django. Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

Django REST framework can be classified as a tool in the "Microframeworks (Backend)" category, while Xamarin 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, Xamarin provides the following key features:

Cross-platform development- Thinking about supporting iOS, Android, Mac and Windows? Xamarin allows you to write it all in C#.
Reuse existing code- Use your favorite .NET libraries in Xamarin apps. Easily use third-party native libraries and frameworks.
Discover as you type- Explore APIs as you type with code autocompletion.

Django REST framework is an open source tool with 14.5K GitHub stars and 4.29K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Django REST framework's open source repository on GitHub.