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.

I have been avoiding the creation of a new framework for several years. First I tried to solve all the features covered by **FastAPI** using many different frameworks, plug-ins, and tools.

import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/** Replacements for JUnit's {@code assertThrows} that work under GWT/J2CL. */
@GwtCompatible(emulated = true)
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
final class ReflectionFreeAssertThrows {
  interface ThrowingRunnable {
    void run() throws Throwable;
  }

import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
import junit.framework.AssertionFailedError;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/** Replacements for JUnit's {@code assertThrows} that work under GWT/J2CL. */
@GwtCompatible(emulated = true)
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
final class ReflectionFreeAssertThrows {
  interface ThrowingRunnable {
    void run() throws Throwable;
  }

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