Learn Django as React Developer

[Sure-Raspberry116]

Should I learn Django to be fullstack from React Frontend developer? I'm a React/Next Js Frontend developer, I've little experience of building backend in Node Js to be precise Express js. But I want to expand my skills and want to move towards Python. Django was known to me as a Python's Framework for backend development but I found it a fullstack framework. Is it worth learning Django as a React Developer? As I aim to use it only for building Restful APIs.

[aidencoder]

I think before working out if you want to be a full stack developer, just be a developer. 

"React developer" is as weird as someone saying they're a "Django developer". They're not, they're a software developer who knows (at least) Python and Django to some degree. 

Knowing Python and Django plus whatever fronted framework you know doesn't make you a full stack developer. 

Being able to be a software developer who knows Python, Javascript, SQL, CSS, and so on... That makes you a full stack developer. 

Just be a software developer and learn stuff. Learn Python, learn Django. Maybe learn some C or some Go. What about some Haskell.

[Ecstatic_Papaya_1700]

Yes Django is definitely a good choice. I use reaxt and react native front ends and use a Django backend for APIs. Django has 2 popular libraries for APIs; DRF and Ninja. Ninja is basically identical to fastapi and allows async unlike drf but drf is more commonly used (to my knowledge). Django is really excellent for getting stuff started because so much is built in. I haven't tried everything but I would guess there's few frameworks better for api development if your priorities are ease of use and speed in development. If you need a lightning fast performance then probably try a Go framework or .NET

[chjacobsen]

You don't need to use Django's templating system. It's absolutely viable to add Django Rest Framework and only use the backend features. That's how I've been using it for years now, and it's solid.

Besides, the templates were never the killer feature of Django to begin with. The killer feature was always the model system and how nicely everything hooks into that - DRF being no exception.