PS: Web Development term here primarily concentrated on Frontend Development.
So today one of my friend asked me how to start web development in python❔
And I told him about Flask and Django because those are the one I have heard of and kinda actually tried.
But then I ❓ him for whom he is asking this for?
He replied for one of his friend.
Then I quickly asked him why didn't he suggest him to try JavaScript for that. (He himself is a React Native developer)
He said that this friend of his knows Python and he just 💕 it.
So in short his friend is in 💕 with Python and we all know that Love makes you blind🙈.
So my friends, this article is an attempt to save so many friends like this from being in 💕 with a language so much that they would try to do everything possible with that language only.
Most of these people are college or university students. I mean it's not wrong to learn python and do development with it. But what I'm giving here is a single advice with list✔️ of reasons that you surely need in your college times.
This above image is from 2020 Developer Survey by StackOverflow.
Python is the most wanted language. But who is the second one?
So in between I'll be throwing more images from 2020 Developer Survey by StackOverflow. Don't ignore🤷♂️ them.
🙊 Secret 🙊: I was also
badlybutnot 🙈inlovewith python, andTypeScript is secretly🤐 JavaScript.
⚠️Warning⚠️: This article is not at all about Why Python for Web Development not JavaScript? However, I would be glad😊 to read if you have some points on it. So don't hesitate to comment them 👇.
Now let's jump🦘 into the Reasons:
1.Jobs, Jobs, Jobs 💲💲💹.
Majority of the people in this category are college students. And when it comes for the time of getting jobs
you won't find as many Job in Web Development through Pythonas many you would get being a developer using a JS library.
See for yourself who is the king.
2.Learning Curve
As a developer who was always in awe with how
easy and coolis Python. Believe me. JavaScript is not at all disappointing. You may find it even cooler😎.
And don't you worry,JavaScript won't ask you to put that Semi-colon;
3.Web runs on browsers🌐.
So if you are thinking of
web development as your futurethen you shouldn't forget the fundamentals of Web.Web browser understands JavaScript.They don't❌ understand any other languages and that's a full stop🛑.
In simple wordsyou can't escape learning JavaScript.
And don't make me mention that,"Everyone use web browsers to access the web."Oops!😅 I did it.
Does that OOPS reminds you of something. Nevermind.
4.Be Choosy.
When I ask someone about doing web development in Python, the only terms I get to hear are Flask and Django and TBH now I don't get to hear it all🙄.
You canchoose so many good frameworks and library in JavaScriptthat are so good in what they do, that it will become difficult for you to decide which one to choose🤯.
And if you're confused then stackoverflow survey can give you a hint💡.
Bonus point:
You can even do backend with JavaScript.Node JSis there waiting for you to try it out.-
5.From Web🌐 to Mobile📱.
You can even get into
Native Mobile app development via JS using React Native. And not just Gimmicky mobile app development but a proper one.
Below is the link to the sources of my Screenshot:
StackOverflow 2020 Survey
Oldest comments (25)
This is great.
Although, many people says that javascript is the language of web.
but, when it comes to things like multi threading , CPU intensive task excution and many more heavy lifting stuff, then javascript is no way near to (giant) PYTHON
Your comment is probably 5 years out of date.
Google "javascript performance vs. python" and you'll find numerous benchmarks showing javascript faster, sometimes MUCH faster, for most of them.
Javascript has supported multi-threading for quite a while. "Web Workers" are available in both the front and back ends, and there are several language constructs for performing asynchronous operations.
But if you love python, by all means use it for the backend, preferably for providing REST services.
Very well explained i also shared it with my few friends to convince them on this topic.
Thanks 😊
I wasn't mentioning preferring Python over JavaScript as being blind by love. I meant that he is just looking at python but ignoring the improvements JavaScript had gone through. But I would say I should have been more clear on this.
Javascript without doubt is the most dreaded language. But I can bet on it being the best for Web Development.
I will make things more clear in this article by making some edits. I'm extremely sorry if this is what it portrayed.
"Web runs on browsers" yes but that's a client, doesn't really have anything to do with not learning Javascript over Python but instead learning it alongside it. Browsers don't care about your backend implementations hence the use of frameworks like Django and Flask. You can run React and Django simultaneously so you don't necessarily need to pick one or the other. I always encourage people to learn using their favorite languages first. Language and frameworks are just tools, you pick the best tool to complete a job and on to the next, no need to revolve our personalities around them.
True. That's what the last line says.
Treat languages like crushes not life partners.Great content mate, just asking I mean If I preferred PHP/Laravel over JavaScript means I'm being blind by love?
(I know the post about Python-JS)
This article is mainly focused on someone who is starting to dive into the world of Web-Dev and not someone who is already into it.
If you already doing great in one you can easily switch to other. But this article focuses on someone who really just knows the language but not the web development.
Being blind by love means:
trying to do all the tasks with the one language you enjoy coding with or primarily code withI hope you got the point. So with this you can easily understand if you are blinded by love or not.
And thanks for your time reading it. 😉
My focus was on frontend web development in this post. Backend maybe another time.
god the emojis.
Ooops ... they are too much. Just wanted to make it feel more like a conversation.
Don't worry my friend the emojis are the best part! I had a great time reading your wonderful article ❤
Thanks ❤️❤️❤️
I'm glad you enjoyed reading this one.
there is only one language running in browser
Ahmmm
Since you are talking about web development, one must not use Python (if not backend rendering). JavaScript is of course De-Facto. So this comparison would have made much sense if it was comparison between JavaScript v/s Rust (Web assembly). Coming to Web servers, I would prefer Python or JavaScript based on the need. For example, if I want to run AI inference I would prefer Python more than JavaScript. If it is just a normal web server which just does some calls to DB or other backends, I would prefer JavaScript.
JavaScript has much better performance when compared to Python - But this is dependant on the application. If you use JavaScript for image processing for example, it would be not useful, because we have many libraries for Python written in C/C++ that can take good performance gain. If my application is purely IO based, I would happily choose JavaScript (node.js) because we can use Node.js powerful event loop and asynchronous processing.
For frontend I would prefer more of Web assembly if I need high performance.
I made this comparison because college students learn python and then try to do everything with it. Rust is language that's still alien to them. Majority of the college students.
This comparison is done intentionally for those college students trying to do everything with python front frontend, backend to mobile app development.
There are so many things python is good at and I won't deny that. I myself prefee python for scripting because of its easy syntax and plethora of modules and libraries available.
😊