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FastAPI is a modern, high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints. FastAPI is an open-source API tool created by Sebastián Ramírez, a software developer from Colombia living in Berlin who has created other open-source tools.
An early micro-release of FastAPI occurred December 15, 2018,and the tool was officially introduced in Ramirez's blog on February 4, 2019. Subsequent releases with enhancements and improvements to the tool have been made with the help of community contributors. The current version was released on March 4, 2022. The FastAPI project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
FastAPI is designed to offer a variety of benefits:
- fast and high-performing
- fast to code
- fewer bugs
- intuitive to use
- robust
- production-ready
- asynchronous
- automatic API documentation-ready
- based on the OpenAPI and JSON schema standard
Additionally, FastAPI is dependent on starlette for web parts and pydantic for data parts.
FastAPI sponsors include CryptAPI, Dropbase, Striveworks, Classiq, Deta, and InvestSuite.
