Decide which python framework to use for backend development

[aaroosh-07]

Description

As we want to prompt LLM models using web application, we need to decide which python framework is best for developing our web server. It should fulfil all the discussion points mentioned below.

Discussion Topics

• [ ] Research about all available python frameworks
• [ ] We only need to implement 2 or 3 API endpoints
• [ ] should be easily deployable to cloud
• [ ] easy to integrate Database

  Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Finalize the framework and start implementing Endpoints

[aaroosh-07]

We have the following python web frameworks available. Django

• This python framework includes everything such as support for sqllite DB, project is structured by default into different files, supports templating so no need to use separate frontend framework at start.
• But is heavy and contains alot of modules which will not be used.

Flask

• Lightweight framework and also has support for templating, used to create microservice applications
• but has security flaws

FastAPI

• Lightweight framework and introduced recently. does not support templating.
• has inbuilt support for different data models using pydantic python library.

I will be researching into this further to choose which framework will be best for our use case

[aaroosh-07]

I think we should go ahead with FastAPI as

1. It is lightweight than django, as our use case does not need all the functionality offered by django.
2. It is faster as it uses asynchronous approach
3. Development and setup time will be much less as compared to django
4. It is better than flask due to added security features and support for type checking