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Django vs FastAPI: which is better for modern API-first projects?

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Answer:

FastAPI is better suited to modern, API-first development. It natively supports async, high-performance endpoints, automatic OpenAPI documentation, data validation, and fast prototyping - all optimised for APIs. Django excels for web apps, but integrating API-first workflows requires more configuration and is less modern than FastAPI in async or typing.

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