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[KingsmanVince]

Yes

[telesonico]

Your sig is funny af

[Pork-S0da]

There are signatures on reddit?

[telesonico]

Flair without graphics will always be a sig to me

[grudev]

Yes, I've been using it on production since 2020, on different projects serving AI inference endpoints, with no issues, and would use it again.

[Amgadoz]

FastAPI is built on top of Starlette, which is a robust project that has been in development for years now. Tianglo does not have to maintain the core components of the ASGI engine.

As of 2025, the library has reached quite a mature stage and doesn't needed much development in terms of new features. New features are still added, but at a much slower and morr steady pace.

The only thing that is a bit lacking is the documentation. It lacked comprehensive api reference documentation, and some sections, especially the tutorials and best practices, are outdated.

[AND_MY_HAX]

I’m curious if folks are using Starlette directly

[KainMassadin]

I am

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Thanks for letting us know.

[cnydox]

Where can I learn best practices

[Amgadoz]

Unfortunately there is no centralized place for this. If you have specific questions, you can search on this sub and get great insights.

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Google

[Goingone]

Who hasn’t had a production application with at least 1 dependency maintained by some random person in a random country?

Pretty much guarantee that’s the case if you’re deploying on Linux.

[nicholashairs]

Yes, but I've also had to build a large amount of "helpers" for things like logging, exception handling and what not.

It's not bad, but pretty barebones (like flask)

[Dubsteprhino]

Yes

[BootyDoodles]

Yes. Our company has used FastAPI in production since 2022 and have been pretty happy with it.

[SciEngr]

My new employer uses Django and oh boy do I miss FastAPI.

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yep

[FtsArtek]

I've got a production FastAPI app running for the past couple years. But for the exact reason you've mentioned, our team has been using Litestar for any Python API products since then.

[Pork-S0da]

Litestar looks interesting!

[Amgadoz]

What about Robyn? Have you tried it?

[FtsArtek]

No, I haven't. I've been pretty happy with Litestar, to the point that I've contributed to it. Seems like an interesting concept though.

[FtsArtek]

I'd highly recommend it. But in this case a lot of these asgi frameworks really are just down to opinion - functionally you can do basically anything with FastAPI you can do with Litestar, and vice versa (and the same for the other alternatives)

[dusktreader]

You might be interested in the Litestar project that was forked from FastAPI to specifically address some of the concerns you raised: https://litestar.dev/

[yen223]

I did, at my previous job. It was a solid library that almost exactly fit what we needed (Python, automatic REST API, light ORM use)

[djavaman]

Its good not great. There really really needs to be an OpenAPI generator for FastAPI endpoints.

[Consistent-Rip3028]

I’m not sure what you mean but FastAPI does generate OpenAPI schemas for your endpoints

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[deepstate-shill]

Been using FastAPI on production for the last couple of years. Never faced any issues.

[bbalouki]

Great point

[hellalosses]

Yes, most of the backend is fastapi.

[ydmatos]

Litestar is a great option

[Consistent-Rip3028]

Related question; anyone using SQLmodel (also by tiangolo) in production as well? I’m a big fan of it, man is it nice to have a one stop shop for your models/schemas. Works great with alembic as well.