I agree with you on Django Ninja, so refreshingly simple compared to DRF. I think Django core needs to adopt something like it.

However, Vite is pretty complicated. I prefer just esbuild if I don't need all the extra features of Vite, which is usually true with Django. I wrote a post[0] with an example repo[1] if anyone wants to see how everything wires up.

With Solidjs, the minimum JS payload is around 9kb, and you get access to the whole JS ecosystem if you want it.

[0] https://blopker.com/writing/07-django-islands-part-1/ [1] https://github.com/blopker/typesafedjango