# Alternatives, Inspiration and Comparisons

What inspired **FastAPI**, how it compares to alternatives and what it learned from them.

## Intro

**FastAPI** wouldn't exist if not for the previous work of others.

There have been many tools created before that have helped inspire its creation.

 contribute in any meaningful way to information in the POM. For example a
 properties file could be used the specify $ so it can be interpolated in
 <developerConnection/> but you couldn't use a properties file to specify the
 version of your project say. Anyway, food for thought to begin with.

 - elements that are critical for pom dissemination

    "EEE MMM d yyyy HH:mm:ss z",
  )

private val BROWSER_COMPATIBLE_DATE_FORMATS =
  arrayOfNulls<DateFormat>(BROWSER_COMPATIBLE_DATE_FORMAT_STRINGS.size)

/** Returns the date for this string, or null if the value couldn't be parsed. */
fun String.toHttpDateOrNull(): Date? {
  if (isEmpty()) return null

  val position = ParsePosition(0)
  var result = STANDARD_DATE_FORMAT.get().parse(this, position)
  if (position.index == length) {

Another option is that you could use a **cloud service** that does more of the work including setting up HTTPS. It could have some restrictions or charge you more, etc. But in that case, you wouldn't have to set up a TLS Termination Proxy yourself.

I'll show you some concrete examples in the next chapters.

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Then the next concepts to consider are all about the program running your actual API (e.g. Uvicorn).

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* **Uvicorn**:
    * Will have the best performance, as it doesn't have much extra code apart from the server itself.

<img src="/img/tutorial/body/image02.png">

## Editor support

In your editor, inside your function you will get type hints and completion everywhere (this wouldn't happen if you received a `dict` instead of a Pydantic model):

<img src="/img/tutorial/body/image03.png">

You also get error checks for incorrect type operations:

<img src="/img/tutorial/body/image04.png">

I only speak a few languages (and not very well 😅). So, the reviewers are the ones that have the [**power to approve translations**](contributing.md#translations){.internal-link target=_blank} of the documentation. Without them, there wouldn't be documentation in several other languages.

{% if people %}
<div class="user-list user-list-center">
{% for user in people.top_translations_reviewers[:50] %}

import okio.ByteString
import okio.ByteString.Companion.decodeHex
import okio.ByteString.Companion.encodeUtf8
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test

internal class MessageDeflaterInflaterTest {
  @Test fun `inflate golden value`() {
    val inflater = MessageInflater(false)
    val message = "f248cdc9c957c8cc4bcb492cc9cccf530400".decodeHex()
    assertThat(inflater.inflate(message)).isEqualTo("Hello inflation!".encodeUtf8())
  }

  /**

            if (pin.hash == sha1) return // Success!
          }
          else -> throw AssertionError("unsupported hashAlgorithm: ${pin.hashAlgorithm}")
        }
      }
    }

    // If we couldn't find a matching pin, format a nice exception.
    val message =
      buildString {
        append("Certificate pinning failure!")
        append("\n  Peer certificate chain:")