Stack battle

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Stack battle

Feature	Django	Laravel	Winner	Comment
Authentication	In core	In Core	Laravel	Multiple starter kits available with ready-made templates for login, pw reset etc. Single sign on/two factor auth available.
Authorization	In Core	In Core	Django	Django has a built-in permissions system. Laravel has many concepts. Gates, Policies, etc. but requires more code. There's a popular permissions package that adds capabilities to laravel.
Templating system	In core	In Core	Laravel	Laravel has the concept of components which is easier to wrap your head around then extending the django templating system.
ORM	In core	In core	Django	The django ORM model definition is a lot easier to reason about, and offers automatic migrations. The Laravel query builder is a bit easeier and more SQL-like, but the ORM is really inefficient compared to Django.
Performance	Ok	Bad	Django	Laravel requires a lot more work to be performant.
Rest Toolkits	DRF	JsonApi	Django	Laravel has better support out of the box, but Django clearly wins when DRF is added. Laravel has the jsonapi package, but it's only for jsonapi.
Admin panel	In core	Filament	TBD	The Django admin is a proven piece of software but is sometimes a bit hairy to customize
CMS	Wagtail	Statamic	TBD	Wagtail is completely open source, but is it good? Statamic seems interesting but pricing can be steep for small projects
JS integration	In core	Django-vite	Laravel	Laravel has first-party support for vite and a clear way of handling js assets. This also supports typescript and many other things aout of the box. Django has nothing.
Full-stack framework	Livewire	Django-unicorn	Laravel	Livewire is officially blessed and widely more popular than django-unicorn.
Form system	In core	Filament	TBD	Django has a form system that works, but it can be quite tedious to work with whenever you have a more complex form to deal with.
Thumbnails	sorl, easy-thumbnail	glide	Draw	Both systems are equal
Hosting	fly.io, DigitalOcean, any cloud vendor	Anywhere with PHP support, Forge and Vapor are official offerings	Laravel	PHP is always the easiest to get going anywhere, from cheap hosting to more complex. There are ways of getting a Django app out there, but nothing is as easy as plain old PHP. The laravel corporation also provides options to easily set up highly scalable environments without the hassle.
Testing	In core (pyunit)	In core (browser testing, phpunit	Laravel	Factories, Better API testing tools, optional browser testing