flask-restx VS apispec

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

flask-restx

Fork of Flask-RESTPlus: Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask (by python-restx)

apispec

A pluggable API specification generator. Currently supports the OpenAPI Specification (f.k.a. the Swagger specification).. (by marshmallow-code)
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flask-restx apispec
11 1
2,065 1,132
1.0% 1.1%
6.4 8.3
4 days ago 2 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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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.

apispec

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  • 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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

flask-restful - Simple framework for creating REST APIs

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

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

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

apiflask - A lightweight Python web API framework.

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

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

flask-api - Browsable web APIs for Flask.