What Powers Instagram

We recommend going with Django for the backend and Reactjs for the frontend . The Django Rest framework will be used to connect the frontend (Reactjs) with the backend (Django). If you are more comfortable with Python or JavaScript, you can decide based on this.

At Instagram, we have the world’s largest deployment of the Django web framework , which is written entirely in Python. We began using Python early on because of its simplicity, but we’ve had to do many hacks over the years to keep it simple as…

Instagram currently features the world’s largest deployment of the Django web framework , which is written entirely in Python.

They use some part of their app in react native not fully react native apps. But F8 app is build in react native. Also their are Instagram and skype build in react native.