FastAPI Pros & Cons

FastAPI Pros & Cons

Top pros of using FastAPI
  • Asynchronous support
  • OAuth 2.0 support
  • GraphQL support with graphene-python
Top cons of using FastAPI
  • Limited educational resources
In total 4 Pros and Cons for FastAPI has been submitted so far, in which 2 where positive and 1 was negative. The highest rated or deemed most accurate Pros & Cons was submitted by the users Bullet , Cassie and Freddie .
2

Asynchronous support

One of the most exiting feature of FastAPI is its support for async/await. With FastAPI you can write asynchronous code out of the box. A welcoming feature to the Python framework ecosystem which is usually synchronous in nature.

Bullet
Bullet
3 years, 6 months ago
Pro
1

OAuth 2.0 support

FastAPI integrates well with OAuth 2.0 and external providers.

Cassie
Cassie
3 years, 6 months ago
Pro
1

Limited educational resources

Since FastAPI is relatively new framework, the community is quiet small. Even though FastAPI provides great documentation and a wide variety of example projects, it can be hard to find external educational information like books, course and tutorials.

Freddie
Freddie
3 years, 6 months ago
Con
0

GraphQL support with graphene-python

With FastAPI it's easy to build a GraphQL API with the help of the python library graphene-python.

Cassie
Cassie
3 years, 6 months ago
Pro

Information found on this page is crowd-sourced by the community and contains the most agreed upon FastAPI Pros and Cons. Which allows you to determine advantages and disadvantages of using FastAPI and pinpoint FastAPI's strengths and weaknesses. Anyone that have used FastAPI can post their own views of the software, vote on the accuracy of other users claims, and help more people is the process of doing so.

This page was last updated on Wed 07 Jul 2021 (2 years, 9 months ago).