What is used in real projects: Django or Django Rest Framework?

Question

Django

What is more often used in real projects: "normal" Django with rendering on the server side or Django Rest Framework using some kind of JS framework. It seems that the vast majority of cases use the second approach. Is it so? And, in general, on what kind of projects is this or that option used?

Answer 1

From experience, development is more often done on the Django Rest Framework. Pure Django is hardly ever used. Because, firstly, the web is now dynamic - frequent updates are required without reloading the entire page. Secondly, mobile clients are often required to work with the project, and thirdly, the project itself can exchange data via API with related projects.
Therefore, a single REST API interface is simply being made, with which the front, mobile clients, and external services are already communicating.