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JavaScript

edwinshen
edwinshen
13,168 Points
Posted by edwinshen
edwinshen
13,168 Points

Learning Express/Flask/Django and their differences/benefits

Hello. I think this is a fairly silly question, but I wanted to know about if it would be a "waste of time" to learn Express and Flask/etc. I know these are mostly for making web applications and I'd like to learn all of them. However, I was wondering if there was any benefit in learning them since you could probably make a website with just Express. Are there practical uses for learning more than one besides reinforcing knowledge of another framework I know?

Thanks!

2 Answers

Jazz Jones
Jazz Jones
8,535 Points
Jazz Jones
Jazz Jones
8,535 Points

Express is for the Node.js environment, and Flask and Django are Python frameworks. They all basically do the same thing i.e. Create a back-end web service/api. I know more javascript than python but as with all frameworks they all solve the same problem with different solutions. If you want to know if it's worth your time learning any of those frameworks I'd suggest reading the documentation and researching blog postings on each of them.

Rey Serantes
Rey Serantes
5,900 Points
Rey Serantes
Rey Serantes
5,900 Points

I would say there's definitely more a learning curve with the Python frameworks but they'll do the same thing essentially. I would also suggest to take the course on here where you build a RESTful web service using Express. It was useful in my opinion.