FastAPI, Flask or Django - Which Should You Use?

[00:00] flask Django or fast API this is the

[00:03] question you should be asking yourself

[00:04] if you're interested in Python web

[00:06] development in this video I'm going to

[00:08] break down everything you need to know

[00:09] about these three different Frameworks

[00:11] and tell you which one you should pick

[00:13] depending on your use case now let's get

[00:16] started with flask this is a lightweight

[00:18] wsgi web application framework that's

[00:21] easy to get started with and highly

[00:23] customizable it's a minimalist framework

[00:25] with extendable features and it's great

[00:27] for building small to mediumsized apps

[00:29] like micro Services next we move on to D

[00:31] Jango now this is a highlevel python web

[00:34] framework that comes with a ton of

[00:35] features out of the box it includes an

[00:38] omm forms authentication routing and

[00:41] more Jango is ideal for handling complex

[00:44] web applications because of its

[00:46] conventional project structure and all

[00:48] of the features that are built into the

[00:49] framework saving you a ton of time

[00:51] lastly we move on to fast API now this

[00:54] is a modern high performance web

[00:56] framework for building apis with

[00:58] standard python type it has support for

[01:01] asynchronous programming automatic data

[01:03] validation and generation of open API

[01:06] documentation this is great for quickly

[01:08] building apis that are self-documenting

[01:10] and really fast in performance so now

[01:13] that we have an overview of these

[01:14] various Frameworks I'm going to start

[01:16] going through some very specific

[01:17] comparison criteria so you can

[01:19] understand exactly which one to pick

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[01:25] using one of these Frameworks you're

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[02:29] these Frameworks beginning with ease of

[02:31] learning now we start with flask this is

[02:34] by far the easiest to learn and in just

[02:36] a few minutes you can have a fully

[02:37] functioning API or website it's very

[02:40] simple and easy to use there's not a lot

[02:42] of setup or a ton of settings that you

[02:44] need to go through and if you're just

[02:45] trying to build something very simple I

[02:47] definitely recommend sticking with flask

[02:50] moving on from that we go to fast API

[02:52] now fast API is more of an intermediate

[02:55] difficulty there are more Concepts that

[02:56] you need to learn you need to understand

[02:58] asynchronous programming and it's

[03:00] helpful to also understand pantic and

[03:02] how you use the python type hint system

[03:05] fast API is a lot more powerful and it

[03:07] can provide automatic documentation and

[03:09] data validation which can be really

[03:11] really helpful but it does take a little

[03:13] bit longer to set up and can be slightly

[03:15] more complicated lastly we move on to D

[03:17] Jango now this is by far the most

[03:20] complicated because it has so many

[03:21] features built in that means just to get

[03:23] a simple D Jango website set up can

[03:25] actually take 20 or 30 minutes if you're

[03:28] learning this completely from scratch

[03:29] it's definitely going to take you a few

[03:31] days or a few weeks to really understand

[03:33] all of the different features and how

[03:34] all of the components work together that

[03:37] said D jeno is definitely worth learning

[03:39] and if you're going to be building

[03:40] something more complicated and with a

[03:41] lot of data I definitely recommend going

[03:44] down that path just understand it will

[03:46] take you a little bit longer as there's

[03:47] a lot of things you need to learn to get

[03:49] started with Jango so now we can get

[03:51] into performance starting with flask now

[03:54] flask has good performance overall but

[03:56] it's not the best for high load

[03:58] applications the reason for that is it's

[04:00] built in a synchronous context meaning

[04:03] it's not going to handle multiple

[04:04] requests at the exact same time like

[04:06] some other web Frameworks next we have

[04:09] fast API now fast API out of all of the

[04:12] Frameworks here is by far the fastest

[04:14] it's Superior to all of them and the

[04:16] reason for that is it's built

[04:17] asynchronously meaning it can scale and

[04:19] it can handle multiple requests at the

[04:21] exact same time lastly we move on to D

[04:24] Jango now Django is the slowest of the

[04:26] three Frameworks due to its

[04:28] comprehensive nature however it is still

[04:30] very reliable for large applications and

[04:32] a lot of huge companies still use Django

[04:35] despite the fact that it's not the

[04:36] fastest out there in summary if you're

[04:38] really looking for the absolute best

[04:40] performance and you're building

[04:41] something like an API then definitely

[04:43] choose fast API but for most of you this

[04:46] isn't going to matter a ton so simply

[04:48] pick the one that's easiest to use or

[04:50] best suited for your project so now

[04:52] we're going to dive into the use cases

[04:54] starting with flask now flask for me is

[04:56] what I use when I want to build

[04:57] something really quickly and I don't

[04:59] want to deal with a ton of configuration

[05:01] or spend a lot of time setting up a

[05:02] server if I need a really fast web

[05:05] server if I want to get something done

[05:06] in just a few minutes I'll definitely

[05:08] turn to flask and even for slightly

[05:10] larger hobby projects flask is still

[05:12] totally fine personally for me it's not

[05:14] something I would use in production

[05:16] unless it was doing a really simple task

[05:18] and that's because there are better more

[05:20] performant options out there but a lot

[05:22] of times in my development environment

[05:23] I'll need a simple API and I'll turn to

[05:26] flask because I know it's the fastest

[05:28] for me to get something set up with it's

[05:30] great to start with if you're a complete

[05:31] beginner it's good for prototyping and

[05:33] you can really use it to learn the

[05:35] fundamentals of web development next we

[05:37] move on to D Jango now Jango is best

[05:39] when you're building a large monolithic

[05:41] application and you need a lot of

[05:43] built-in features like a CMS

[05:45] authentication and om Etc now it's worth

[05:49] noting that with a framework like flask

[05:51] you can actually have extensions or

[05:52] additional python packages they provide

[05:55] some of the same functionality but it's

[05:57] not as conventional to use them and it

[05:59] can get a a little bit messy when you're

[06:00] building a really large app so that's

[06:02] personally why I prefer D Jango Django

[06:05] has a lot of settings and configuration

[06:07] built in a lot of things you already

[06:09] know how to do because it's simply built

[06:11] into the framework when you start

[06:12] building something larger and you maybe

[06:14] have multiple developers on your team

[06:16] it's a lot easier to work with something

[06:18] that has the conventions built in like d

[06:20] Jango and all of the features already

[06:22] wrapped into the framework Jango is

[06:24] really good when you're dealing with a

[06:25] lot of data it has again something

[06:27] called an OM which is an object

[06:29] relational mapping and it allows you to

[06:31] utilize databases just like a normal

[06:33] python object which can make it really

[06:35] easy to do development and manage large

[06:37] amounts of data that said it also has

[06:39] all of that data that you can add to an

[06:41] admin panel so you have a built-in CMS

[06:44] and overall it's just better when you're

[06:45] dealing with a lot of data and you have

[06:47] these larger applications now lastly we

[06:50] move on to fast API fast API is really

[06:53] the choice to go with if you're trying

[06:54] to build a high performant API now with

[06:57] both flask and Django you can build API

[06:59] as well or you can just build a normal

[07:01] website where you're rendering HTML and

[07:03] pages but really if you want the fastest

[07:06] API you can possibly have then fast API

[07:08] is the one to go with it has automatic

[07:10] data validation automatic documentation

[07:13] which is super super helpful especially

[07:15] as you scale up and it has asynchronous

[07:17] programming built in which is really

[07:18] what provides it all of that speed so

[07:21] overall flask for something simple

[07:23] prototyping getting a hobby project up

[07:25] and running Jango for something a little

[07:27] more professional where you need those

[07:28] built-in features and then fast API when

[07:31] you want a high performance scalable API

[07:33] so now we move on to community and

[07:35] ecosystem now all three of these are

[07:37] very large well-known python Frameworks

[07:40] they have a huge Community behind them

[07:42] and all of them have additional

[07:43] extensions add-ons plugins Etc that you

[07:47] can add to have additional functionality

[07:49] in each framework for example something

[07:51] like flask even though it doesn't have a

[07:53] ton of features built in there's all

[07:55] kinds of packages you can install they

[07:57] provide that additional functionality

[07:59] for example you want authentication in

[08:01] flask you can simply install a package

[08:03] and now you have flask authentication

[08:05] you just need to do a little bit of

[08:07] configuration same thing for Django same

[08:09] thing for fast API so I wouldn't pick

[08:11] one of these three packages or one of

[08:13] these three Frameworks sory simply

[08:15] because they have a larger Community or

[08:16] ecosystem all of them are very wellknown

[08:19] all kinds of resources on the internet

[08:21] and they're used for very large projects

[08:23] some of which you've probably interacted

[08:25] with so now we're going to get into job

[08:27] demand and which of these you should

[08:28] learn if you are looking to land a

[08:30] developer role now bluntly Django is

[08:32] going to be the most popular here and

[08:34] it's going to show up in the most job

[08:36] requirements that's because this is the

[08:38] larger of the Frameworks it's used for a

[08:40] lot of larger or midsize companies and

[08:42] this is really just what a lot of people

[08:44] go to when they're trying to build a

[08:46] website or some kind of backend service

[08:48] with python so if you are looking to

[08:50] land a roll simply learn Jango that's

[08:52] going to be your best bet not to say

[08:54] that flask and fast API don't have some

[08:56] demand in the market they do and they're

[08:58] increasingly popping up especially for

[09:00] the smaller companies or startups but

[09:02] most of the time you're going to be

[09:03] seeing Jango listed as that primary

[09:05] framework overall I would say it's worth

[09:07] it just to learn them all D Jango will

[09:09] definitely take you the most amount of

[09:11] time but picking up something like Fast

[09:13] API or flask is going to be pretty fast

[09:15] and it can have an added benefit when

[09:17] you are applying to jobs so there you

[09:19] are that's my breakdown of flask Jango

[09:21] and fast API flask for simple web apps

[09:24] where you're prototyping or building

[09:26] something quickly D Jango for more

[09:28] complicated dated driven applications

[09:30] and fast API for building that fast

[09:32] scalable API with python if you enjoyed

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