---

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints.

The key features are:

* **Fast**: Very high performance, on par with **NodeJS** and **Go** (thanks to Starlette and Pydantic). [One of the fastest Python frameworks available](#performance).
* **Fast to code**: Increase the speed to develop features by about 200% to 300%. *

    "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",
    "Framework :: AsyncIO",
    "Framework :: FastAPI",
    "Framework :: Pydantic",
    "Framework :: Pydantic :: 1",

## ASGI Servers

Let's go a little deeper into the details.

FastAPI uses a standard for building Python web frameworks and servers called <abbr title="Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface">ASGI</abbr>. FastAPI is an ASGI web framework.

* Seriously impressive performance. It is <a href="https://github.com/encode/starlette#performance" class="external-link" target="_blank">one of the fastest Python frameworks available, on par with **NodeJS** and **Go**</a>.
* **WebSocket** support.
* In-process background tasks.
* Startup and shutdown events.
* Test client built on HTTPX.

---

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints.

The key features are:

* **Fast**: Very high performance, on par with **NodeJS** and **Go** (thanks to Starlette and Pydantic). [One of the fastest Python frameworks available](#performance).
* **Fast to code**: Increase the speed to develop features by about 200% to 300%. *

"""FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""

__version__ = "0.111.0"

from starlette import status as status

from .applications import FastAPI as FastAPI
from .background import BackgroundTasks as BackgroundTasks
from .datastructures import UploadFile as UploadFile
from .exceptions import HTTPException as HTTPException
from .exceptions import WebSocketException as WebSocketException

## 0.7.1

* Update [technical details about `async def` handling](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/async/#path-operation-functions) with respect to previous frameworks. PR [#64](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/64) by [@haizaar](https://github.com/haizaar).

```console
$ pip install websockets

---> 100%
```

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## WebSockets client

### In production

In your production system, you probably have a frontend created with a modern framework like React, Vue.js or Angular.

And to communicate using WebSockets with your backend you would probably use your frontend's utilities.

INHERIT: ../en/mkdocs.maybe-insiders.yml
site_name: FastAPI
site_description: FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
site_url: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
theme:
  name: material
  custom_dir: ../en/overrides
  palette:
  - media: '(prefers-color-scheme: light)'
    scheme: default
    primary: teal
    accent: amber
    toggle:
      icon: material/lightbulb
      name: Switch to dark mode

# support (this will revert to loading TensorFlow with RTLD_GLOBAL in Python).
# By default, TensorFlow will build with a dependence on
# //tensorflow:libtensorflow_framework.so.
build:monolithic --define framework_shared_object=false
build:monolithic --define tsl_protobuf_header_only=false
build:monolithic --experimental_link_static_libraries_once=false  # b/229868128