Looking for powerful technology for your new project? The right framework makes application development simpler and faster. Your choice of tech stack can also influence the price and future possibilities of improving your business solutions.
You have heard about Python and you think it might be the best language to start your new app with? Here you’ll find some information about the most popular Python-based frameworks.
How to choose the right framework for your project
Surely, you know by now that there are plenty of technologies that could be used for web and mobile app development, creating advanced solutions for your company management and leveraging the newest methods of running a business. Python is a high-level general-purpose programming language, and it has many frameworks designed to overcome different development problems. It can be used in various projects.
But how do you decide which framework is the best for your company? Before you meet with consultants and developers from a software house, you should answer the following questions:
- How big and complex will your desired business solution be?
- Does your in-house team have a lot of experience in IT projects, and you’d like to choose your application structure and libraries, or would you rather the developers select it for you?
- What quality of performance do you expect?
- What is your preferred time-to-market?
- What kind of special features do you expect your application will have?
You don’t have to be an expert on IT solutions for business and choose the only framework by yourself. Idego Group consultants have many years of experience in analyzing the business needs of small, medium, and large companies and suggesting the right solutions. All you have to do is to tell them what you require and ask about some tech stack that interests you – keep reading to learn about popular Python-based frameworks.
Flask
This is among the most popular Python-based frameworks in 2020. It provides a core set of functionalities: request handling, routing, WSGI compliance, templating, and flexibility. Using it, developers can make their own choice for matters like storage, database interaction, authentication, authorization, security solutions, and many others – as it allows for easy integration of your chosen solutions. The possibility to do so lets you keep your app free of libraries and pieces of code representing functionalities that your business solution doesn’t use at all. Apart from flexibility, you’ll benefit from scalability as Flask enables developers to scale applications easily.
Which projects should it be considered for?
- Web application development
- Building microservices
- MVP development in a short time
- Medium and large scale projects
Pyramid
This full-stack framework provides routing, renderers, and command-line tools for bootstrapping a project and enables the user to choose the libraries, database layer, and templating system. Developers can use a nice, large set of useful plugins for their projects. This may be a good choice if you expect to integrate your application with systems that would not be integrated easily with frameworks such as Django. By developing in Pyramid, developers can code with a minimalistic approach (it is similar to Flask in that regard). There is no need to deal with components that are not of high business value for your company. This results in better performance.
Which projects should it be considered for?
- Large applications
- For exposing existing Python code as a REST API
- Providing the core for web projects to be developed further
Django
Another full-stack, this Python-based framework is known as a great technology for building complex web applications. Often called “the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines”, Django is great for building advanced business products which need to be created in the shortest possible time. It comes with an automatically generated admin interface that makes quick development easier. Furthermore, it offers its object-relational mapper (ORM) for handling databases and standard solutions for authentication and authorization.
Which projects should it be considered for?
- Rapid development
- Small and large projects
- For web applications that will have to deal with high traffic
- For solutions that will contain a lot of content
- For developing API-only backend applications
Choosing the best technology is not as easy as it might seem. Always remember to analyze all your business needs carefully before making a choice and consult with experts.
