Tango

Tango is an open source, batteries-included backend framework closely modeled after Django Rest Framework (DRF), but written in TypeScript.

Getting Started

You can check out the example project here to see how it works.

Features

• Direct access to TypeORM
• Automattic CRUD endpoints using ViewSets
• Easy-to-write views
• Robust URL routing
• Out-of-the-box authentication and permissions
• Easily accessible middleware

Design Choices

• Tango is explicitly a backend framework. While Django has a template engine, Tango does not. Tango is meant to be used in conjunction with a frontend framework like React or Vue.
• IMO the best way to build a backend is to use a strongly typed language. While Python is a great language, it lacks this.

Usage

Tango is nowhere near production ready. Use at your own risk. There is no guarantee that this package will be consistently maintained.

Roadmap

• [x] Basic CRUD endpoints
• [x] Basic URL routing
• [x] Basic middleware
• [ ] Basic authentication
• [ ] Basic permissions
• [ ] Filtering viewsets
• [ ] Pagination
• [ ] Throttling
• [ ] tRPC or OpenAPI