Django vs Mithril

Overview

Django

Stacks38.7K

Followers34.8K

Votes4.2K

GitHub Stars85.6K

Forks33.2K

Mithril

Stacks89

Followers79

Votes86

Django vs Mithril: What are the differences?

Django: The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design; Mithril: Client-side MVC framework - a tool to organize code in a way that is easy to think about and to maintain. Mithril is around 12kb gzipped thanks to its small, focused, API. It provides a templating engine with a virtual DOM diff implementation for performant rendering, utilities for high-level modelling via functional composition, as well as support for routing and componentization.

Django belongs to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack, while Mithril can be primarily classified under "Javascript MVC Frameworks".

"Rapid development" is the top reason why over 492 developers like Django, while over 15 developers mention "Lightweight" as the leading cause for choosing Mithril.

Django and Mithril are both open source tools. It seems that Django with 42.6K GitHub stars and 18.3K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Mithril with 11.3K GitHub stars and 863 GitHub forks.

Instagram, Pinterest, and Udemy are some of the popular companies that use Django, whereas Mithril is used by Cloud Vlts, Inc., Dial Once, and SpartanGeek. Django has a broader approval, being mentioned in 993 company stacks & 914 developers stacks; compared to Mithril, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Advice on Django, Mithril

Felipe

May 24, 2020

Decided

Since I came from python I had two choices: #django or #flask. It felt like it was a better idea to go for #django considering I was building a blogging platform, this is kind of what #django was made for. On the other hand, #rails seems to be a fantastic framework to get things done. Although I do not regret any of my time spent on developing with #django I want to give @{#rails}|topic:null| a try some day in the future for the sake of curiosity.

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Sandeep

Jun 13, 2020

Needs adviceon

Python

JavaScript

Jinja

I have learned both Python and JavaScript. I also tried my hand at Django. But i found it difficult to work with Django, on frontend its Jinja format is very confusing and limited. I have not tried Node.js yet and unsure which tool to go ahead with. I want an internship as soon as possible so please answer keeping that in mind.

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Ing. Alvaro

Software Systems Engineer at Ripio

May 21, 2020

Decided

Decided to change all my stack to microsoft technologies for they behave just great together. It is very easy to set up and deploy projects using visual studio and azure. Visual studio is also an amazing IDE, if not the best, when used for C#, it allows you to work in every aspect of your software.

Visual studio templates for ASP.NET MVC are the best I've found compared to django, rails, laravel, and others.

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Detailed Comparison

Django	Mithril
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.	Mithril is around 12kb gzipped thanks to its small, focused, API. It provides a templating engine with a virtual DOM diff implementation for performant rendering, utilities for high-level modelling via functional composition, as well as support for routing and componentization.
-	Only 12kb gzipped, no dependencies;Small API, small learning curve;Safe-by-default templates;Hierarchical MVC via components;Virtual DOM diffing and compilable templates;Intelligent auto-redrawing system
Statistics
GitHub Stars 85.6K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 33.2K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 38.7K	Stacks 89
Followers 34.8K	Followers 79
Votes 4.2K	Votes 86
Pros & Cons
Pros 678 Rapid development 488 Open source 426 Great community 380 Easy to learn 277 Mvc Cons 26 Underpowered templating 22 Autoreload restarts whole server 22 Underpowered ORM 15 URL dispatcher ignores HTTP method 10 Internal subcomponents coupling	Pros 16 Lightweight 12 Faster than React 10 Virtual Dom 10 Pure JavaScript 8 Robust Cons 1 Virtual Dom
Integrations
Python	TypeScript JavaScript

What are some alternatives to Django, Mithril?

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.

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

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.

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.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

Symfony

It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..

Spring

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Spring Boot

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.

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"Rapid development" is the top reason why over 492 developers like Django, while over 15 developers mention "Lightweight" as the leading cause for choosing Mithril.

Django vs Mithril