flask-restx VS swagger

Compare flask-restx vs swagger 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)

swagger

OpenAPI (Swagger) module for Nest framework (node.js) :earth_americas: (by nestjs)
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flask-restx swagger
11 5
2,055 1,595
1.4% 3.0%
6.4 9.6
27 days ago 3 days ago
Python TypeScript
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.
  • 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.

swagger

Posts with mentions or reviews of swagger. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.
  • NestJS + esbuild workarounds
    7 projects | dev.to | 13 Sep 2022
    1. openapi is not defined. https://github.com/nestjs/swagger/issues/1450
  • decorators
    2 projects | /r/Nestjs_framework | 17 Jun 2022
    The repository for every optional NestJS package that has decorators seems to consistently put them in /lib/decorators. For example, here are the NestJS Swagger decorators.
  • OpenAPI Specification: The Complete Guide
    19 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2022
    NestJS provides a dedicated module which allows generating OpenAPI (Swagger) - Github - nestjs/swagger
  • Announcing Ditsmod 2.0 beta (with RealWorld example)
    6 projects | dev.to | 10 Jan 2022
    Thanks to the system of extensions, Ditsmod applications are more expressive and with less code. For example, if you compare OpenAPI modules written in Ditsmod and NestJS, the Ditsmod module is 3.5 times smaller in the number of lines of code or the number of files.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flask-restx and swagger 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

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

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

apiflask - A lightweight Python web API framework.

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

springdoc-openapi - Library for OpenAPI 3 with spring-boot

springfox - Automated JSON API documentation for API's built with Spring

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