In my experience it was overly complicated, unflexible, and a nightmare to work with. Flask and fastapi were more lightweight alternatives, where the development experience is much less 'dreaded'.
The only advantage I saw is it lets you do a lot of things out of the box - the most useful for us being the GUI to see and edit whatever table…
In my experience it was overly complicated, unflexible, and a nightmare to work with. Flask and fastapi were more lightweight alternatives, where the development experience is much less 'dreaded'.
The only advantage I saw is it lets you do a lot of things out of the box - the most useful for us being the GUI to see and edit whatever tables you want in the DB. So our CS (and other internal users) can grant user permissions that way, without us needing to build dedicated UI features for it.
In my experience it was overly complicated, unflexible, and a nightmare to work with. Flask and fastapi were more lightweight alternatives, where the development experience is much less 'dreaded'.
The only advantage I saw is it lets you do a lot of things out of the box - the most useful for us being the GUI to see and edit whatever tables you want in the DB. So our CS (and other internal users) can grant user permissions that way, without us needing to build dedicated UI features for it.
I see, I tried Flask - and it was a pleasant experience.
Thanks for sharing these details.