It has **advantages** and **disadvantages** when compared to common **web APIs**.

    Make sure you evaluate if the **benefits** for your use case compensate the **drawbacks**. 🤓

## GraphQL Libraries

Here are some of the **GraphQL** libraries that have **ASGI** support. You could use them with **FastAPI**:

* <a href="https://strawberry.rocks/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Strawberry</a> 🍓

    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
    "Programming Language :: Python",
    "Topic :: Internet",
    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks",
    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries",
    "Topic :: Software Development",
    "Typing :: Typed",
    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
    "Environment :: Web Environment",

* It exposes an actual Python <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile" class="external-link" target="_blank">`SpooledTemporaryFile`</a> object that you can pass directly to other libraries that expect a file-like object.

### `UploadFile`

`UploadFile` has the following attributes:

* `filename`: A `str` with the original file name that was uploaded (e.g. `myimage.jpg`).

    And also that your code will be very compatible with many other Python tools and libraries. 🚀

## Type hints in **FastAPI**

**FastAPI** takes advantage of these type hints to do several things.

With **FastAPI** you declare parameters with type hints and you get:

* **Editor support**.

**FastAPI** is fully compatible with (and based on) <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/" class="external-link" target="_blank"><strong>Pydantic</strong></a>. So, any additional Pydantic code you have, will also work.

Including external libraries also based on Pydantic, as <abbr title="Object-Relational Mapper">ORM</abbr>s, <abbr title="Object-Document Mapper">ODM</abbr>s for databases.

## In a hurry?

<abbr title="too long; didn't read"><strong>TL;DR:</strong></abbr>

If you are using third party libraries that tell you to call them with `await`, like:

```Python
results = await some_library()
```

Then, declare your *path operation functions* with `async def` like:

```Python hl_lines="2"
@app.get('/')

```

!!! note "Nota"
    Solo puedes usar `await` dentro de funciones creadas con `async def`.

---

Si estás utilizando libraries de terceros que se comunican con algo (una base de datos, una API, el sistema de archivos, etc.) y no tienes soporte para `await` (este es el caso para la mayoría de las libraries de bases de datos), declara tus *path operation functions* de forma habitual, con solo `def`, de la siguiente manera:

```Python hl_lines="2"

That way, you don't have to read it all first in memory, and you can pass that generator function to the `StreamingResponse`, and return it.

This includes many libraries to interact with cloud storage, video processing, and others.

```{ .python .annotate hl_lines="2  10-12  14" }
{!../../../docs_src/custom_response/tutorial008.py!}
```

**Typer** è il fratello minore di FastAPI. Ed è stato ideato per essere la **FastAPI delle CLI**. ⌨️ 🚀

## Requisiti

Python 3.6+

FastAPI è basata su importanti librerie:

* <a href="https://www.starlette.io/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Starlette</a> per le parti web.
* <a href="https://docs.pydantic.dev/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Pydantic</a> per le parti dei dati.

* More advanced (but equally easy) techniques for declaring **deeply nested JSON models** (thanks to Pydantic).
* **GraphQL** integration with <a href="https://strawberry.rocks" class="external-link" target="_blank">Strawberry</a> and other libraries.
* Many extra features (thanks to Starlette) as:
    * **WebSockets**
    * extremely easy tests based on HTTPX and `pytest`
    * **CORS**
    * **Cookie Sessions**
    * ...and more.

## Performance