FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints. The key features are: Fast: Very high performance, on par with NodeJS and Go (thanks to Starlette and Pydantic). One of the fastest Python frameworks available.

FastAPI is a Python framework and set of tools that enables developers to use a REST interface to call commonly used functions to implement applications. It is accessed through a REST API to call common building blocks for an app. In this example, the author uses FastAPI to create accounts, login, and authenticate.

Unlike Flask, FastAPI supports asynchronous code out of the box using the async / await Python keywords. FastAPI supports asynchronous by default, which means we don't need to use a third-party framework to do asynchronous. In conclusion, FastAPI is a fast web framework and supports asynchronous code.

This tutorial shows you how to use FastAPI with most of its features, step by step.

Each section gradually builds on the previous ones, but it's structured to separate topics, so that you can go directly to any specific one to solve your specific API needs.

It is also built to work as a future reference.

So you can come back and see exactly what you need.