FastAPI

Modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7+

About FastAPI

Modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7+

Key Features

  • Fast: Very high performance
  • Fast to code: Increase the speed to develop features by about 200% to 300%
  • Fewer bugs: Reduce about 40% of human-induced errors
  • Intuitive: Great editor support. Completion everywhere. Less time debugging
  • Easy: Designed to be easy to use and learn. Less time reading docs
  • Short: Minimize code duplication. Multiple features from each parameter declaration
  • Robust: Get production-ready code. With automatic interactive documentation
  • Standards-based: Based on (and fully compatible with) OpenAPI (previously known as Swagger) and JSON Schema

Installation

uv add fastapi

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Quick Info

Latest Version
0.109.0
First Release
2018
License
MIT

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