Django shines at creating a nice project scaffold with all the things you need to do rapid development. It has first class support for DB, unit testing, schema migrations, good enough templating system, performant ORM and can be easily debugged. The documentation is top notch and the best thing is the community. Due to its longevity I found that almost all the issues I had were resolved by a simple Google query or visiting the docs.

It’s very easy to add functionality like social auth with few lines of code.

I’ve also not found anything like Django admin in any other framework. I would highly recommended Django for an MVP.

I see a lot of people talking about Elixir, etc. on this thread, but I’m based in the U.K. and I’ve never seen a company locally using Elixir so even if it’s really cool, it’d be a bad idea for me to choose it absent a very very good reason. If I choose Django then even if I can’t find a Django developer, I can likely find people who know Python and the barrier to entry is pretty easy.

Not a dig on Rails, like "Oh, Rails is so bad they don't even have..."; rather, Rails is extremely capable, and so are Rails devs, so I legitimately don't understand why this isn't there already, 15+ years after Django.

This is something I realized pretty quickly when toying with migrating my side project from Flask to Django last year. Everything I wanted to know how to do, I could google with “Django” as the first term, and figure out how to accomplish. Anything that took longer than 2 mins to figure out how to do was generally a matter of not knowing how to phrase the question.

It’s made me a huge Django advocate.