FastAPI versus Flask

What is all that excitement? Don't we already have Django?

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Recently, it seems to me that there has been a buzz around FastAPI as an alternative Python web framework. I was never that fond of Django because it seemed so heavy for my particular use cases, but I always loved Flask because it was quick and easy to build. So now we have a framework that dares to call itself FastAPI, and…