Building Modern Apps with FastAPI and CURRENCit

FastAPI has taken the Python world by storm. In this post, we explore why it is the superior choice for modern web development.

Why Async Matters

In the old days of WSGI, workers were blocked.

# Old way
def sync_worker():
    time.sleep(5)
    return "Done"

With ASGI, we can handle thousands of concurrent connections.

"FastAPI is one of the fastest Python frameworks available." - Benchmarks

Key Features

1. Type Hints: Validate data automatically.
2. Performance: Rivals NodeJS and Go.
3. Standards: Based on OpenAPI and JSON Schema.

Let's look at a table of comparison:

Conclusion

Switching to FastAPI is a no-brainer for data-intensive applications.

#### `content/pages/about.md`
A standard page.

```markdown
---
title: About Us
description: We are a team of digital nomads building tools for creators.
---

## Our Mission

We believe that content management should be simple, fast, and fun. We stripped away the databases, the complicated dashboards, and the plugin hell to bring you **Moosey CMS**.

### The Team

![Office](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1522071820081-009f0129c71c?auto=format&fit=crop&q=80)

We are a distributed team working from 4 different continents.

*   **Anthony:** Lead Developer
*   **Sarah:** Design System
*   **Mike:** Devops

3. Usage

1. Ensure your main.py points CONTENT_DIR to public/content and TEMPLATES_DIR to public/templates.
2. Run uv run uvicorn main:app --reload.
3. Visit http://localhost:8000.

You will see a fully responsive, styled website with a Hero homepage, a Blog index with featured layouts, and beautiful typography for articles.