What’s Up with Python and React Jobs Right Now?
Recently made a video encouraging react developers to learn python in 2025 if they want to get a job. My reasoning in the video was went through linkedin job postings for react developers. Seven out of 10 of them wanted you to also know python. That’s 70% of the react related job postings on linkedin. In this video want to talk about some of the popular python frameworks out there and help you decide which framework you should learn in 2025.
Which Python Web Frameworks Are Really Worth Learning?
First off the big three web frameworks for python developers is flask fast api and django. Flask and django are both synchronous frameworks which means you have to do everything in order. Fast api allows asynchronous development which makes it up to 5 to 10 times faster than django and flask. Now not a python expert yet just now starting to learn myself but based on what studied it sounds like flask would be the quickest way to get up and running learning python. You can whip up a server in no time but there’s not a lot of built-in libraries and features so as you’re building if you need to get more and more complex you’re probably going to have to install additional things into the framework as you go along. So flask is kind of a good way to get started but it may not be the best for production level development or for getting a job.
Why Are So Many Companies Choosing Django and FastAPI?
Django on the other hand has everything included in the framework from the get go. It has an om authentication admin panels forms security patches. It’s over 15 years old. It has a huge built-in ecosystem and this is a big statistic. 76% of python developers use django. So really if you’re just looking to get a job at maybe an established company django’s probably the smartest option. It’s what most python developers already use especially if it’s a an established company that maybe has a good bit of job security. Django seems like it would be the best framework to learn if you’re just trying to get a job at an established company. Having said that fast api is really coming in fast. It’s now used by 26% of python developers and one of the big reasons which already mentioned is that it allows asynchronous development and so again it can be 5 to 10 times faster than django and so you can be handling thousands of requests per second and so it’s got a lot going for it. Another cool thing about fast api is it generates its own open api docs the moment you hit save and one of the things about fast api is it’s used by a lot of startups and also have read that a lot of large enterprise companies that currently use java or net.
A lot of these companies do not currently use python but they’re wanting to integrate ai into all of their systems but their systems are just so enormous that it would be impractical to move their entire system over to python. So a lot of these bigger companies are kind of taking a hybrid approach instead of rewriting everything they’re using fast api to just connect part of their service part of their codebase to python based ai systems. So a lot of enterprise level software companies are using fast api to integrate ai into their systems right now and read something like 45% of them are doing it. So while django is used by 76% of python developers something to really think about is fast api is now being used by 45% of large companies who are trying to integrate ai into their systems and again it’s just really fast and so that could be a lot more attractive to startups that value being fast and it’s also great if you need to be running a lot of different functions at the same time managing different calls at the same time.
How Do You Pick the Right Python Framework for Your Goals?
So in conclusion if had to give you advice on what to learn would say it kind of depends on what you want to do in your career. If you’re looking to get into anything related to ai it seems like fast api would be the way to go. It seems to be used a lot for ai specifically but if you’re looking to get a stable secure job at a well-established company you may want to learn django instead. That seems to be the smartest play simply because so many python developers use django. Again 76% of python developers use django but at the end of the day it would be best to just learn both and even flask so you can have it on your resume. Just learn all three.
