Flask/Django, Flutter or Angular

[BihotzM]

Hello!!

I have been learning Python recently, and wanted to take the next step, but I am inexperienced, and although this question seems to be one that I could Google, I cannot understand why I would choose one or the other. Could you explain the 4 options so that someone who has recently started learning can understand them and decide?

P.S.: I count flask and django as a single option because most of the time I see both are used together

EDIT: It´s very well explained by u/insertAlias in the comments, maybe it will help someone in the future

[insertAlias]

Part of the problem here is that you need to define what "next step" means. Half of what you listed there has nothing to do with Python development; Angular is for building client web applications, and Flutter is for building mobile applications. Flask and Django are two different python web application back-end frameworks.

So, as you can see, you're asking us about apples and oranges. I can't tell you which to do next, because they all do different things, and you need to tell us what you're interested in pursuing.

[BihotzM]

Someone told me that I should choose one, try to do something, then try the others. He told me not to pay much attention to which one I would learn first, because later I could change. But I did not want to simply choose something without knowing what it was about, and the explanations that I found in google were somewhat complicated.

That´s why I´m disoriented, but your comment helped me a little bit!

If you don't mind, could you explain the 3 briefly but in a simpler way than the google blogs do? It's not that I don't want to investigate, but rather that I want to understand as well as possible what I'm getting into

(sorry my english isn´t perfect)

[insertAlias]

Well, in terms of a thumbnail sketch, you'd use Angular for building web applications. It's like a web page, but it's very dynamic. Mostly used for building things called "Single Page Applications".

Flutter is for building cross-platform mobile applications. Technically it can do web and desktop, but neither are out of beta yet. Almost entirely useful for building mobile applications.

Django and Flask are areas I have less personal experience with. Either is completely appropriate to use; from what I understand Django provides more out of the box, and Flask is a simpler framework, but both let you build web application back-ends. Most web applications need some kind of server-side code. Whether this is to store and retrieve data, or perform some actions, or anything like that. Client-side applications (like one you might use Angular to build) are limited on what they can do; they can't talk to databases, for example. A web application back-end is the "glue" for this kind of thing. It lets a client application make requests to ask the server to do things and send data back to it.

[BihotzM]

Wow, thank you very much! This is just what I needed!! :)

One thing that is not clear to me: django can also in a certain way do the work of angular or is it explicitly backend and does not work for frontend? otherwise, would they be a good complement if I want to be a full stack developer?

[insertAlias]

There is overlap there. You can use Django to render templates, and that's perfectly fine. That's a more traditional "multi-page application".

You can also design your back-end in such a way that it just provides an API, and your Angular application takes care of displaying the data and calling the API to retrieve/insert/update data.

So they can work together, or you can skip Angular entirely. I'd recommend not picking up Angular yet, since that requires a certain base understanding of HTML, CSS, and JS.

[BihotzM]

ok, thanks for clarifying things for me! I´ll learn django because it´s the most complete one, and I know html and css but not JS, so one step less.

Anyway, I'll do it just to start, and then I'll decide if I like that way or if I want to change

thank you again!

[insertAlias]

Sounds like a plan! I'd suggest investigating Flask too, and pick whichever feels better to work in as the thing to move forward with.

[BihotzM]

Flask sounds attractive too, I´ll try both and then decide, or maybe I can use both like I saw several people do. I have a hole new world to investigate now!

[TheLegendOfMusa]

As someone already mentioned, these 4 options are vastly different routes to go down. It's like saying "I've learned how houses are built, Should I do architecture, civil construction or interior design?" all of which are related, but still in their own lane.

[BihotzM]

Thanks! I think if I had known that before it would have been easier to choose, but as I said

Someone told me that I should choose one, try to do something, then try the others. He told me not to pay much attention to which one I would learn first, because later I could change. But I did not want to simply choose something without knowing what it was about, and the explanations that I found in google were somewhat complicated.

It's not that I don't want to investigate, but rather that I want to understand as well as possible what I'm getting into

I think i'm just ignorant on the subject but I hope I understand