The Smalles possible FastAPI Template

Create an API's using FastAPI in just minutes, 📹 watch the video tutorial.

• Extensive documentation here.
• Integrated with Pipenv for package managing.
• Fast deloyment to render.com or heroku with $ pipenv run deploy.
• Use of .env file.
• SQLAlchemy integration for database abstraction.

1) Installation

If you open this template using 4Geeks' Click and Code bridge it will install itself in a few seconds if you open it for free with Codespaces (recommended) or Gitpod. Skip this installation steps and jump to step 2 if you decide to use any of those services.

Important: The boiplerplate is made for python 3.10 but you can change the python_version on the Pipfile.

The following steps are automatically runned withing Codespaces or Gitpod.

Only for localhost installations:

If you are doing a local installation, you have to do the following manually:

# Install packages
pipenv install;

# Create postgres database
psql -U root -c 'CREATE DATABASE example;'

# Initialize migrations
pipenv run init;

# Create your first migration
pipenv run migrate;

# Upgrade for the first time
pipenv run upgrade;

Note: Codespaces users can connect to psql by typing: psql -h localhost -U gitpod example

2) How to Start coding

There is an example API working with an example database. All your application code should be written inside the ./src/ folder.

• src/endpoints/.py: it's where your endpoints should be coded; add one file for each model, for example, ./src/endpoints/user.py.
• src/models.py: your database tables and serialization logic.
• src/utils.py: some reusable classes and functions.
• src/admin.py: add your models to the admin and manage your data easily.
• src/database.py: Do not modify this file, database configuration.

For a more detailed explanation, look for extensive documentation here.

Remember to migrate every time you update your models

You have to migrate and upgrade the migrations for every update you make to your models:

$ pipenv run migrate # (to make the migrations)
$ pipenv run upgrade  # (to update your database with the migrations)

Check your API live

1. Once you run the pipenv run start command your API will start running live and you can open it by clicking in the "ports" tab and then clicking "open browser".

✋ If you are working on a coding cloud like Codespaces or Gitpod make sure that your forwared port is public.

Publish/Deploy your website!

This boilerplate it's 100% read to deploy with Render.com and Herkou in a matter of minutes. Please read the official documentation about it:

• Deploy to Render.com
• Deploy to Heroku

Contributors

This template was built as part of the 4Geeks Academy Coding Bootcamp by Alejandro Sanchez and many other contributors. Find out more about our Full Stack Developer Course, Data Science Bootcamp and CyberSecurity Bootcamp.

You can find other templates and resources like this at the school's Github page.