It's worth pointing out that the ASGI support in this release is very low level, and doesn't let you write async views or anything yet. We're still working on that.
> Note that as a side-effect of this change, Django is now aware of asynchronous event loops and will block you calling code marked as “async unsafe” - such as ORM operations - from an asynchronous context.
Am I correct to understand this as meaning async views can’t even read from the database yet? I guess the only use cases for ASGI views currently would be interacting with outside-Django backends that implement async support and such?
If you’re in the hacking mode - what do you think of taking the Django orm and grafting it onto fast api - sort of like a stand-alone sqlalchemy but with all the ease and power or django’s querysets...
Django ORM is not async so using it with FastAPI would block the event loop. I guess you could wrap the calls in sync_to_async from asgiref but it wouldn't be pretty.
Another option is using something like Tom Christie's orm project (https://github.com/encode/orm), which is a wrapper on top of sqlachemy with a django like interface.
