FastAPI Reviews

1. Kurslog team

   · Working at Kurslog · 5 months ago

   When our backend team needs to build services for data parsing, aggregators, or high-load APIs, FastAPI is our absolute go-to choice. It completely lives up to its name-development speed is outstanding.

   The combination of Pydantic for data validation and built-in async support keeps our shared codebase clean, strictly typed, and reliable. But the biggest highlight for our cross-functional team is the automatic generation of interactive OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation. Our frontend and mobile developers no longer have to wait for backend engineers to manually update API docs; everything stays perfectly in sync automatically. It has drastically improved our team's communication and delivery speed.

   Competitors: Django, Flask, ExpressJS, Nest.js, Spring Boot

   Pros:    Blazing fast performance (on par with nodejs and go)|Native asynchronous support out of the box|Automatic, interactive documentation generation (swagger/redoc)|Strict typing and data validation with pydantic

   Cons:    Smaller plug-and-play ecosystem compared to older frameworks like django|Requires our architects to design the project structure and directory layout from scratch

NotchNook Reviews

FastAPI mentions (312)

• I Built My First Machine Learning API — Here's Everything I Learned

  I used FastAPI, a Python framework built specifically for creating APIs quickly, with automatic validation and interactive documentation baked in. - Source: dev.to / 25 days ago

• Shipping Sovereign SDK: Cryptographic Forensic Receipts and the End of the AI "Prose Tax"

  The Sovereign SDK is a Python-native framework designed to minimize prose overhead while generating ironclad, cryptographic execution receipts for AI agents, complete with drop-in FastAPI/Starlette ASGI middleware. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• 5-Minute AI Jobs and Closed Tabs — Why We Built Replay-Then-Tail SSE

  We had a feature in production where a single user request could run for five-plus minutes — fetch documents, chunk them, hit an LLM per chunk, synthesize a final answer. We did the obvious thing first: a FastAPI handler that ran the pipeline and streamed progress back to the browser over Server-Sent Events. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• FastAPI With LangChain and MongoDB

  FastAPI is a Python framework for building APIs quickly, efficiently, and with very little code. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• I Built A " CrowdSense AI " : A Scalable, Context-Aware Platform for Smart Stadiums

  Backend: Python-based FastAPI for its asynchronous I/O capabilities and rapid JSON serialization. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

NotchNook mentions (2)

• A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

  I love this, but I’d rather have an indicator in the menu bar, an app notification, or maybe a nice flow around the "notch" like NotchNook. (https://lo.cafe/notchnook) Can't really afford to play with an app that would have such an obvious hit on productivity and mental clarity. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Stripe blocks small dev sales and wants to refund $100k in legit purchases

  I wondered how the webpage https://lo.cafe/notchnook managed to sell $100k in download. I mean one cannot even zoom in on the screenshot, there's no list of features. Then I saw the tool was reviewed on, for example https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/21/24202914/notchnook-mac-app-dynamic-island-iphone recently. That might explain the sudden success. For a payment provider it must have looked unusual (their decision... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago