---
title: "Using tools with appropriate ability"
date: 2022-01-31
lang: en
draft: true
categories: [ blog ]
tags: [luna, django, decision, tools, "use cases"]
translationKey: "luna-django"
---

As you may have learnt from my previous posts (blog post and fedi posts), I'm
writing a client for [lotide][lotide] named [Luna][luna].  And you
might also have seen me saying it's using Django as framework and my remark on
it being unfitting.  I am going to elaborate more on this in this post.

[lotide]: https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/
[luna]: https://sr.ht/~huyngo/luna/

## Django

[Django is a batteries-included web backend framework][django].  It includes:

- web server
- router
- database connector and <abbr title="object-relational mapper">ORM</abbr>
- database migration tool
- authentication
- admin tool
- command line framework
- templating engines
- internationalization tools
- form handlers
- email

There is a lot more that can be installed as plugins, and some of these tools
can be unplugged from the `INSTALLED_APPS` in the settings.  However, I'm
talking about the *default* here:

[django]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/batteries-included

## Luna

- Luna: just a frontend (just the view part)
- overhead (a lot of setting)
- origin: trying out stuff
  - try out golang
    - golang internationalization support feels lacking
  - back to flask/quart for [Yue][yue], since Jinja supports internationalization well
    - can use it for back end of another app (pandict).

[yue]: https://sr.ht/~huyngo/Yue/