What is the FARM Stack?

The FARM stack is a full technology stack built with the technologies FastAPI, React, and MongoDB.

Yes, the FARM stack is good for beginners because you can easily learn all the technologies involved:

• JavaScript: Most web applications use JavaScript as the front end, and learning JS will help you with other projects too.
• Python: Python is among the top languages, especially for data science use cases. Its syntax is easy to read, learn, and understand for beginners.
• MongoDB: MongoDB stores data as documents, which provides a natural structure for looking at all the data in a single view, making it easier to query and store.

The FARM stack and MERN stack commonly use MongoDB and React. The difference is that the MERN stack uses the Node.js-based Express framework for the back end, thus making it an all-JavaScript technology stack, whereas the FARM stack uses FastAPI, a Python-based framework.

The unique features that make the FARM stack highly performant and suitable for real-time applications include the following:

• MongoDB offers flexibility to store unstructured data without requiring application downtime or extensive schema changes.
• FastAPI relies on the ASGI specification, which is the best way to build high-performance asynchronous applications.
• FastAPI also provides features like automatic documentation (using the SwaggerUI) and data validation (using pydantic), so that developers do not require any additional tools for data validation and testing.
• React uses JSX and virtual DOM, both of which provide a fast, smooth user experience with real-time updates to the page as soon as data changes.

Yes, the FARM stack is a full technology stack as it has a front end, back end, and data layer, which are basic requirements for a full stack.