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I've just made a first project in fastAPI, and it was trivially simple compared to my previous adventures in DRF. Plus asyc from the get go, which was also pleasant. I had a task as part of this that takes 10 seconds to run, and there's a built in way to allow it to run in the background.

And the documentation is excellent.

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> I've just made a first project in fastAPI, and it was trivially simple…

My experience has been, as Seth Godin says, “the long-cut is the most direct route to get to where you seek to go”

Every time I started with Django, I hated the feeling of sitting in boilerplate hell early on.

Every time I started with FastAPI/Flask, I get something working quickly, then hit a wall of recreating everything that comes with Django.

The only solution I’ve found is: embrace boilerplate [1], automate the boilerplate.

[1] Django, or whatever batteries included framework you like (Rails, Laravel, Phoenix, etc)

Yeah, at a past job I had to build out a way to run launchdarkly in FastAPI and it was very unpleasant. Launchdarkly only ships a sync python client so we ended up having to run it in another process to avoid blocking all requests

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