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API frameworks in Python

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- [Narrator] When building an API, there are a few different libraries and frameworks you can use within Python. Flask is one option. It's a Python-based microframework used by developers to make micro web services. We'll be exploring Flask later in this course when we build a full stack application. Another option is Django. Django is a Python-based REST framework that supports templating, routing, authentication, and management tools by default. It also integrates with SQL Lite, Mongo DB, and Dynamo DB. There's also Falcon. Falcon is a high-performance REST framework focused on quality control. It's used to build reliable application backends and easily integrates with no SQL. Given all of these, the technology we'll be building our API with is FastAPI. FastAPI is a modern, high-performance, web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7 and higher. It's easy to use, very fast, and minimizes code duplication.…

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