Phoenix is more like Flask in that regard and definitely doesn't come batteries included like Django (no auth, no admin, no cache backends etc) so it would be more work to build something as full-featured as DRF on top of it.
Having said that, I've found it easy to get along with retuning JSON and the actual speed of responses is incredible. Completely anecdotal and unscientific but one service I recently converted from DRF to Phoenix saw drops in avg response time of 350ms to about 15ms.
Having said that, I've found it easy to get along with retuning JSON and the actual speed of responses is incredible. Completely anecdotal and unscientific but one service I recently converted from DRF to Phoenix saw drops in avg response time of 350ms to about 15ms.