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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

by 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".