Learn FastAPI by Coding

Open-source project provided by AppSeed to help beginners accommodate faster with FastAPI. For newcomers, FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.

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Getting Started with FastAPI

Create a Virtual Environment

$ # Virtualenv modules installation (Unix-based systems)
$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$
$ # Virtualenv modules installation (Windows-based systems)
$ # virtualenv env
$ # .\env\Scripts\activate

Install FastAPI and uvicorn

$ pip install fastapi
$ pip install uvicorn

Edit your first file main.py

from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()

@app.get("/")
async def root():
    return {"message": "Hello FastAPI"}

Start the app using uvicorn

$ uvicorn main:app --reload
$ 
$ The project is LIVE - https://localhost:8000 

Visualize auto-generated docs

• OpenAPI: http://localhost:8000/docs
• ReDoc: http://localhost:8000/redoc

Added Tortoise ORM Sample

Original code: ML & FastAPI - CH06

How to use it

uvicorn app_tortoise:app --reload

Access the app in the browser and query the API

• http://localhost:8000/docs - Interactive UI
• http://localhost:8000/posts - List all posts

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