No, I don’t think so. It’s just a preference thing. I think that the rails scaffolding is definitely comparable. For most apps in Django I ultimately move away from admin in production towards custom views. There is a search fields feature, which I use frequently, but it might not do what you’re looking for. I think user permissioning and the audit trail are pretty useful in the early stages of an app. At the end of the day, crud is crud, and if you have a workflow that works for you nothing the admin panel offers is going to save you all that much time. Rails scaffolding is a similar way. It’s just one workflow.
I’m doing a side project in Go right now, which is decidedly not “batteries included”, and I love it. Go and htmx are kind of a match made in heaven. That doesn’t mean I think Django Admin or Rails Scaffolding are useless, they’re just a convenience. I rolled my own login system, cause it’s fun. Is Django user land or Devise more secure? Absolutely. Is it necessary for what I’m doing? Nope.
My personal preference is that if I’m doing app design or consumer facing work, Rails seems stronger. For internal tooling, data analysis work, or geospatial work, I reach to Django to have those Python libraries available.
I’m doing a side project in Go right now, which is decidedly not “batteries included”, and I love it. Go and htmx are kind of a match made in heaven. That doesn’t mean I think Django Admin or Rails Scaffolding are useless, they’re just a convenience. I rolled my own login system, cause it’s fun. Is Django user land or Devise more secure? Absolutely. Is it necessary for what I’m doing? Nope.
My personal preference is that if I’m doing app design or consumer facing work, Rails seems stronger. For internal tooling, data analysis work, or geospatial work, I reach to Django to have those Python libraries available.