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> 🍓

```

!!! 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"

    "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`).

## 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('/')

**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.

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!}
```

* 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

    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**.

- Basé sur les type hints Python.
- Validation et documentation via ces types.
- Système d'injection de dépendances.

Il n'utilise pas une librairie tiers de validation, sérialisation et de documentation tel que Pydantic, il utilise son propre système. Ainsi, ces définitions de types de données ne sont pas réutilisables aussi facilement.