Comparison of Flask and FastAPI

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26 September 2022, 7 min read

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Python - as you may know already - is a language that is becoming more and more popular when it comes to building web applications. As it is so, there are also numerous web frameworks to choose from. In this article, we will look at two popular micro-frameworks - one of them is Flask, and the other one is FastAPI.

What's inside

  1. Introduction
  2. What is Flask
  3. What is FastAPI
  4. Main benefits of Flask
  5. Main benefits of FastAPI
  6. Drawbacks of Flask
  7. Drawbacks of FastAPI
  8. So which should you choose?
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