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> Fastapi is far from world class in any category other than usage. Imho FastAPI's weakest point is maintenance. The Github repo has 800+ open issues and 400+

by mkl95 5y ago

> Fastapi is far from world class in any category other than usage. Imho FastAPI's weakest point is maintenance. The Github repo has 800+ open issues and 400+ open PRs. Tiangolo is the only user that constantly makes non trivial contributions. I just can't see that being sustainable in the long term if all those items are not actively triaged.

kortex 5y ago
Yeah it is definitely in the wildly popular upswing phase. I'm hoping it attracts a crew of maintainers to take some of the burden off. The one thing it has going for it is much of the heavy lifting is done by starlette, maintained by encode.io, which is actively funded. It's not trying to be rails, rather it's relying on other libraries and packages to add functionality.
mmcnl 5y ago
The documentation is the worst I've ever seen. There is no API reference! Just a bunch of incohesive tutorials that hopefully overlap with what you're trying to achieve.
- mkl95 5y ago
  I agree, but as someone who has been working with Django for years, my standards are pretty high, and I'm opinionated when it comes to docs. Check out my latest post on HN. Seemingly the creator and single maintainer is ignoring requests from developers to let other people maintain the project. I used FastAPI at work some time ago, but I can't see myself using it again anytime soon. Imho relying on someone's personal project for software that's going to be in production indefinitely is a big risk.
  - mmcnl 5y ago
    I've never seen a library that's remotely popular without an API reference. I don't think that's a high standard.
    - mkl95 5y ago
      TIL FastAPI does not have an API reference. I can't find a roadmap either. That's... wild.
- anyfactor 5y ago
  I didn't like the Django philosophy. So it was FastAPI vs Flask RESTful. People kept saying FastAPI was the next big thing, but nothing can beat Flask documentation and the FastAPI community and documentation felt like, "you ought to know that before you ask".

by mkl95 5y ago

kortex 5y ago

Yeah it is definitely in the wildly popular upswing phase. I'm hoping it attracts a crew of maintainers to take some of the burden off. The one thing it has going for it is much of the heavy lifting is done by starlette, maintained by encode.io, which is actively funded. It's not trying to be rails, rather it's relying on other libraries and packages to add functionality.

mmcnl 5y ago

The documentation is the worst I've ever seen. There is no API reference! Just a bunch of incohesive tutorials that hopefully overlap with what you're trying to achieve.

mkl95 5y ago
I agree, but as someone who has been working with Django for years, my standards are pretty high, and I'm opinionated when it comes to docs. Check out my latest post on HN. Seemingly the creator and single maintainer is ignoring requests from developers to let other people maintain the project. I used FastAPI at work some time ago, but I can't see myself using it again anytime soon. Imho relying on someone's personal project for software that's going to be in production indefinitely is a big risk.
- mmcnl 5y ago
  I've never seen a library that's remotely popular without an API reference. I don't think that's a high standard.
  - mkl95 5y ago
    TIL FastAPI does not have an API reference. I can't find a roadmap either. That's... wild.
anyfactor 5y ago
I didn't like the Django philosophy. So it was FastAPI vs Flask RESTful. People kept saying FastAPI was the next big thing, but nothing can beat Flask documentation and the FastAPI community and documentation felt like, "you ought to know that before you ask".