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Laravel is great in this regard. They have a number of first party packages like Laravel Spark that handle the heavy lifting of subscriptions, Laravel Nova that lets you spin up admin panels real fast, Forge for hosting... Highly recommend checking it out if you don’t mind PHP.

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how do it compare to django? my experience with php was limited to some wordpress hacking.

Laravel is pretty good. Spark definitely reminds me a lot of Django. https://spark.laravel.com/

I think nowadays you can use whatever frontend you want with it, where prior versions you had to use Vue (I think)

I haven't used Django so I can't comment about that. However, the latest Laravel Spark is now a totally separate part of your app that you don't control. It's super easy to implement, include the package, configure your packages and be done with that part of it. Then within your application you have a bunch of methods available on your billable object.

I'm really not doing it much justice, but the docs are pretty short and easy to read through: https://spark.laravel.com/docs/1.x/spark-stripe/plans.html

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