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What would the typical HN startup gain from this over using just Django?

Is there anything on the Demo page (https://boilerplate.saasitive.com/) that would be different?

In my experience as a user, everything that uses React is always an annoyance in one way or another. But I am happy to understand if there are legit use cases.

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It's a good learning tool, and if you want to use React for some specific reason this may be a good starting point. But not otherwise.

Otherwise django + react makes sense when there're different people (or teams) handling the frontend and the backend.

Yes, this boilerplate has two main goals: (1) it is a good starting point for developing the more advanced applications (2) it is provided for learning purposes, there are step-by-step instructions how the boilerplate was created. BTW, it is still under the development.

The boilerplate code runs with docker-compose on single server but in the future the frontend and backend can be easily divided, so separate teams can work on them.

It’s really difficult to keep your data in sync with the backend, especially at scale. They also fit in well in a micro service architecture, which solves a lot of comms and maintenance problems at scale.

The typical hn startup is expected to grow to that size, to an enterprise scale, so you’re not going to see a lot of people use Django.

Can you list one annoyance you see as a user with React?

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