Options for building REST APIs in Python.
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To build rest apis we have following options
- Flask
- Django – restful
- Fast API
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We will be using FastAPI
How does python program run behind http(s)
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A server listens to http and exposes the python files as a reaction to http calls
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We have two flavors
- WSGI (Web server gateway interface)
- ASGI (Async server gateway interface)
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Refer Here for fastapi docs
Lets create a hello-world fast api application
- Create a new directory
- initialize
uv init . - Add fastapi dependencies
uv add "fastapi[standard]"
- Refer Here for the example code
