Backend technologies comparison

What is the most appropriate programming language for this project backend application ?

Programming Language

JavaScript (Node.js)

• Better performance than Django
• Event driven programming
• Huge number of connections, but small messages
• Real-time data
• Not good when complexe CPU calculations are needed

Python (Django)

• More scalable than Node.js
• Model-Template-View architecture
• Better security (against CSRF, SQL injection, ...)
• Supports ORM and is better with CRUD-heavy operations than Node.js

Summary

Django seems to be a better choice than Node.js for this project, which is mostly a Relational-Database-CRUD application. Furthermore, Django is also a great choice when developing an API backend application.

Nodes.js is powerful when dealing with real-time applications and sending small messages.

Framework (Django or Flask)

Django seems to be a better choice than Flask, because of the following reasons :

• Powerful ORM
• Support for generating and managing database migrations
• Includes by default CRUD operations
• Auth
• Account management
• Admin panel for CRUD operations
• Includes by default form validation (with security against CSRF, XSS, SQL injection)