apispec VS flask-restx

Compare apispec vs flask-restx and see what are their differences.

apispec

A pluggable API specification generator. Currently supports the OpenAPI Specification (f.k.a. the Swagger specification).. (by marshmallow-code)

flask-restx

Fork of Flask-RESTPlus: Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask (by python-restx)
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apispec flask-restx
1 11
1,128 2,055
1.8% 1.4%
8.1 6.4
2 days ago 27 days ago
Python Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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apispec

Posts with mentions or reviews of apispec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-17.
  • 21 tools to document your Python project
    9 projects | dev.to | 17 Mar 2021
    apispec is not a framework, but a library that provides a Pythonic interface to OpenAPI constructs. It has multiple integrations with different tools and frameworks, including Flask, Pyramid, aiohttp, and Falcon. The list of integrations is available on the ecosystem page.

flask-restx

Posts with mentions or reviews of flask-restx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-25.
  • Faster time-to-market with API-first
    12 projects | dev.to | 25 Oct 2022
    When it comes to Flask, in particular, there’re plenty of choices. And in fairness, not all frameworks are created equal. You’ve got flasgger, restx (successor of flask-restplus), flask-RESTful, and flask-smorest, to mention a few. How do you choose among those???
  • What's best library for swagger + flask?
    6 projects | /r/Python | 25 Sep 2022
  • OpenAPI Specification: The Complete Guide
    19 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2022
    Flask-RESTX is an extension that adds support for quickly building REST APIs - GitHub - python-restx/flask-restx
  • Unsure how to register API endpoints using namespaces in flask-restx
    2 projects | /r/flask | 28 Nov 2021
    However, after following [the example](https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx/tree/88497ced96674916403fa7829de693eaa3485a08/examples/zoo_app), [more complex tutorials](https://github.com/TheMorpheus407/Tutorials/tree/master/Flask/RestplusAPI) or other [basic tutorials](https://blog.ordix.de/rest), I still only receive 404s when calling get on /api or the endpoints I tried to define.
  • Why Choose Flask Over FastAPI
    2 projects | /r/flask | 18 Apr 2021
    FALSE. https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx among many others are mature and have existed for a long time. https://github.com/plangrid/flask-rebar exists.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing apispec and flask-restx you can also consider the following projects:

Flask RestPlus - Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask

flask-restful - Simple framework for creating REST APIs

fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

flasgger - Easy OpenAPI specs and Swagger UI for your Flask API

flask-smorest - DB agnostic framework to build auto-documented REST APIs with Flask and marshmallow

apiflask - A lightweight Python web API framework.

drf-spectacular - Sane and flexible OpenAPI 3 schema generation for Django REST framework.

flask-rebar - Flask-Rebar combines flask, marshmallow, and swagger for robust REST services.

pyswagger - An OpenAPI (fka Swagger) client & converter in python, which is type-safe, dynamic, spec-compliant.

flask-api - Browsable web APIs for Flask.