fastapi VS django-rest-framework

Official FastAPI Docs

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7+ based on standard Python type hints. We use it to build the web API for the image search.

The backend of this accountability AI application is built using FastAPI, a high-performance framework for Python. The app allows users to communicate with the AI, which helps them stay accountable by generating responses based on their input. Below is a breakdown of the key components used in the code:

until i realized Anki has their own API Interface, which made me realize that i can automate this task, efficiently, while also getting hand on experience using FastAPI and LLMs (but am i going to change the stack later?.. lets see)

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll see how I used FastAPI and Jinja2 to turn raw JSON into a dynamic timeline of weather and history that feels informative and fun.

The only thing left to do then was to build something that could showcase the power of code ingestion within a vector database, and it immediately clicked in my mind: "Why don't I ingest my entire codebase of solved Go exercises from Exercism?" That's how I created Code-RAGent, your friendly coding assistant based on your personal codebases and grounded in web search. It is built on top of GPT-4.1, powered by OpenAI, LinkUp, LlamaIndex, Qdrant, FastAPI and Streamlit. The building of this project was aimed at providing a reproducible and adaptable agent, that people can therefore customize based on their needs, and it was composed of three phases:

FastAPI and Uvicorn are two essential building blocks when developing high-performance Python APIs.

FastAPI Documentation: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

The GitHub Discussion: link

Django’s "batteries-included" philosophy makes it an excellent choice for API development. With Django REST Framework (DRF), you get:

I am maintaining a Python codebase that is based on Django and Django REST Framework (DRF). The codebase uses Nix for development, testing, CI/CD and packaging.

Django Rest framework

Explore the Django REST Framework Documentation for advanced topics.

I've seen some companies using React with Django REST Framework [1], to keep the benefits of Django (I'm not a Django dev so I will have to guess, the ORM and project structure?) while having a strong separation between front and back (separate projects, teams, deploys, etc).

[1] https://www.django-rest-framework.org

Django REST Framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs using Django, the popular high-level Python web framework. Zuplo proudly sponsors the DRF project to continue improving the Django API development ecosystem.

I think people tend to consider Django either for building old-school, industrial-strength monolith apps or for APIs and using something like React for the front-end. I’m here to tell you that plain old Django is a great option even for your personal websites! In my opinion, if you need a database, you should use Django1.

This post will extend Django REST Framework's ViewSet and SimpleRouter to provide a Rails-like request handler class + resource routing in server-render Django applications. It also features form-level method spoofing for PUT, PATCH and DELETE requests via custom middleware.

Django Rest Framework