[odie5533]

Flask is missing... pydantic, dependency injection, openapi, swagger, real async.

[nop_slide]

https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-pydantic

https://luolingchun.github.io/flask-openapi3/v4.x/

> dependency injection

While nice I never found this to be a critical deciding factor of using a technology.

> real async

If you really want it there is Quart which is real async

https://github.com/pallets/quart

I'm not a huge async fan in python anymore so not it's not a huge issue for me. But there are definitely options for Flask if you want to use async.

[odie5533]

flask-openapi3 looks good but has only 246 stars. Would be worried using it in production. flask-pydantic has no openapi tie-in. Oh look, there's me bumping the openapi request that's been an issue since 2020: https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-pydantic/issues/17 which has an open PR since 2022.

It's possible between Quart and svcs (for DI) and some Pydantic/Marshmallow/OpenAPI extension you might be able to mimic what FastAPI does. But I'd just use FastAPI. I use async too. It's a lot easier to scale in my opinion.

Do none of these pieces matter to you? Like do you not do any data validation or care about OpenAPI?

[nop_slide]

At $JOB we're using both flask-pydantic and flask-openapi via those libraries and they are serving us just fine.

But yes async does not matter to me.

[wiseowise]

Of course you can assemble FastAPI scrim scratch, that’s not the point. The selling point is everything integrated, like Django.

[callamdelaney]

Dependency injection in fastapi honestly feels like a horrible afterthought. Flask's g is much easier to reason about, and 99% of projects don't need the 'performance improvements' of async.

[Exoristos]

So nothing of importance.

[odie5533]

What do you do for data validation?