Built by developers,
for developers
Why we built FastKit
FastAPI is an exceptional framework — fast, modern, and developer-friendly. But it deliberately leaves architecture decisions to you. That freedom is a feature, not a flaw. The problem is that every team ends up solving the same problems from scratch: repository patterns, service layers, consistent API responses, code generation, email delivery. The solutions look slightly different everywhere, and the cumulative cost — in onboarding time, inconsistency, and repeated work — is real.
FastKit exists to solve that once, properly. Not by restricting what FastAPI can do, but by providing a well-thought-out layer on top — one that experienced developers would build anyway, available to everyone from day one. The goal is simple: when you start a new FastAPI project with FastKit, the first thing you write is business logic, not infrastructure.
What we believe
Good tooling should be opinionated enough to be useful but transparent enough to get out of your way. Every abstraction in FastKit can be understood in minutes, extended freely, or bypassed entirely if you need to. The generated code is yours — readable, editable, and not tied to a black box. The patterns are ones that scale from a solo developer's side project to a production system handling real traffic, because we built them for exactly that.
We also believe that documentation is part of the product. A library that works but can't be understood isn't ready. Every module in FastKit is documented with real examples, not toy snippets — because the gap between "technically documented" and "actually useful" is where most open source projects quietly fail.
Join us
FastKit is early and growing. There are many ways to contribute — technical and non-technical, large and small.
Fix bugs, implement features, improve performance. Check the GitHub issues for good first issues and open pull requests.
Spotted a typo, a confusing explanation, or a missing example? Documentation contributions are just as valuable as code.
Used FastKit and something didn't work as expected? Open an issue on GitHub — a clear bug report is a real contribution.
Building something with FastKit? Your real-world experience — what works, what doesn't — directly shapes the direction of the project.