Re: Tech stack for Python aurweb
Hi guys, This is just a drive-by suggestion but as I've had my fair share of contact with Python web development, both professional and as a hobby, I thought I'd write something. I've worked with Flask for a long time and it really got my career started so it'll always live in a special place for me but I wouldn't use it for modern projects anymore. Some of the patterns used by Flask and the technologies surrounding it are pretty dated by modern standards (magical globals anyone?). Let me instead suggest you consider FastAPI [0]. I've created a few projects using it and I love it. It has the feel of Flask while being entirely modern and yet doesn't feel bloated at all. Here's my feature top list: - Great documentation (even for outside-of-happy-path cases) - Very fast thanks to async (but you can mix sync and async routes if you want to) - Fully typed (with type-based input validation and marshaling using Pydantic by the same author) which makes it possible to run mypy to good effect - Automatic OpenAPI-based API documentation generation based on the aforementioned types - Testing is very nice - Dependency injection is nicer than using Flask's globals (but don't overuse it!) It doesn't ship with templating but you can easily add it. [1] I'm unlikely to be the one implementing this so it's always your call and I'll try to be helpful whichever framework you go with. Cheers, Sven [0] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ [1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/templates/
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Sven-Hendrik Haase