Abandoning Flask for FastAPI

I’m sorry Flask, but FastAPI is so much better.

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All across Medium and social media, my feeds have constantly been posts about why people should use FastAPI for writing APIs in Python. Seeing this, I was a little shocked, because I was under the impression that Flask and Django were the major Python API frameworks. For the last few years, Flask has been my go-to framework for writing…