Symfony vs FastAPI

Symfony is open source and released under the MIT license.

Symfony comes with a built-in toolbar that helps developers debug their applications during the development phase.

The toolbar is also extendable and new components, called panels can be added if needed to help with the debugging process.

One of the greatest strengths of Symfony is it's amazing and large plugin ecosystem, which comes as a result of it's large and dedicated community. Having a large number of plugins means less development time and more productivity.

Symfony has one of the most active communities out of all the PHP frameworks. This is shown by the high number of commits made every day in the GitHub repo.

Symfony makes you be a better programmer. You have to deal with the latest object-oriented design patterns such as service-oriented architecture, dependency injection, interface abstraction, and so on.

Symfony makes use of XML, YAML or PHP annotations to create configurations in order to tell Doctrine on how properties of a certain class should be.

Symfony has a powerful built-in event system that allows you to add flexibility to applications and makes it easier to maintain the codebase down the road.

Uses Twig, which is a simple and easy to learn templating language that can also be used as a standalone engine, outside the framework.

Symfony makes use of the Doctrine ORM to add an abstraction layer over the database in order to maintain flexibility without having unnecessary code duplication.

It has a simple but powerful dependency injection system, it can be used to handle authentication, per-user rate limiting, authorization controls (e.g. with roles), etc.

It is based on standards: OpenAPI, JSON Schema and OAuth 2.0.

It validates the data using the types you declared. Even in deeply nested JSON requests.

It's based on Starlette and Pydantic, so, it's one of the fastest Python frameworks.

It is based on Python type declarations, so, editors and tools can give great support. Including type checks and autocompletion everywhere.

It's easy to develop API based applications in Python on deadlines for Android and IOS Development.

It generates interactive API documentation automatically from your code.

It's independent of database or ORM, but compatible with all of them. Including relational databases and NoSQL.

It's based on Async IO, which gives it high concurrency. But you can use non-async libraries and it runs them appropriately.

It has some of the best documentation of any framework.

Because it's an async framework, it can handle async-native protocols like WebSockets.

It has integrated support for OAuth 2.0. Including declaring required scopes per endpoint. So, you can easily integrate it with external OAuth 2.0 providers or build your own with it.

Included support for background tasks, thanks to being based on Starlette.

Python's graphene library is included as an optional dependency meaning that GraphQL API's are supported out of the box, with no additional tweaking needed.