# Including WSGI - Flask, Django, others { #including-wsgi-flask-django-others }

You can mount WSGI applications as you saw with [Sub Applications - Mounts](sub-applications.md){.internal-link target=_blank}, [Behind a Proxy](behind-a-proxy.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

For that, you can use the `WSGIMiddleware` and use it to wrap your WSGI application, for example, Flask, Django, etc.

## Using `WSGIMiddleware` { #using-wsgimiddleware }

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Have an automatic API documentation web user interface.

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### <a href="https://flask.palletsprojects.com" class="external-link" target="_blank">Flask</a> { #flask }

Flask is a "microframework", it doesn't include database integrations nor many of the things that come by default in Django.

    * But it provides you the tools to build simple web applications, with routing based on paths, etc.
    * If you are comparing Starlette, compare it against Sanic, Flask, Django, etc. Web frameworks (or microframeworks).
* **FastAPI**:
    * The same way that Starlette uses Uvicorn and cannot be faster than it, **FastAPI** uses Starlette, so it cannot be faster than it.

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# Templates { #templates }

You can use any template engine you want with **FastAPI**.

A common choice is Jinja2, the same one used by Flask and other tools.

There are utilities to configure it easily that you can use directly in your **FastAPI** application (provided by Starlette).

## Install dependencies { #install-dependencies }

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```console
$ pip install "passlib[bcrypt]"

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```

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/// tip | Tipp

Mit `passlib` können Sie sogar konfigurieren, Passwörter zu lesen, die von **Django**, einem **Flask**-Sicherheit-Plugin, oder vielen anderen erstellt wurden.

```console
$ pip install "passlib[bcrypt]"

---> 100%
```

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/// tip | Consejo

Con `passlib`, incluso podrías configurarlo para poder leer contraseñas creadas por **Django**, un plug-in de seguridad de **Flask** u otros muchos.

Así, podrías, por ejemplo, compartir los mismos datos de una aplicación de Django en una base de datos con una aplicación de FastAPI. O migrar gradualmente una aplicación de Django usando la misma base de datos.

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```console
$ pip install "passlib[bcrypt]"

---> 100%
```

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With `passlib`, you could even configure it to be able to read passwords created by **Django**, a **Flask** security plug-in or many others.

So, you would be able to, for example, share the same data from a Django application in a database with a FastAPI application. Or gradually migrate a Django application using the same database.

**FastAPI** provides a convenience tool to structure your application while keeping all the flexibility.

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If you come from Flask, this would be the equivalent of Flask's Blueprints.

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## An example file structure { #an-example-file-structure }

Let's say you have a file structure like this:

```
.
├── app
│   ├── __init__.py

```console
$ pip install "passlib[bcrypt]"

---> 100%
```

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/// tip | Подсказка
С помощью `passlib` можно даже настроить его на чтение паролей, созданных **Django**, плагином безопасности **Flask** или многими другими библиотеками.