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A curated list of awesome things related to FastAPI

Awesome FastAPI

A curated list of awesome things related to FastAPI.

FastAPI is a modern, high-performance, batteries-included Python web framework that's perfect for building RESTful APIs.

Contents

• Third-Party Extensions
  • Admin
  • Auth
  • Databases
  • Developer Tools
  • Email
  • Utils
• Resources
  • Official Resources
  • External Resources
  • Podcasts
  • Articles
  • Tutorials
  • Talks
  • Videos
  • Courses
• Hosting
  • PaaS
  • IaaS
  • Serverless
• Projects
  • Boilerplate
  • Open Source Projects

Third-Party Extensions

Admin

• FastAPI Admin - Functional admin panel that provides a user interface for performing CRUD operations on your data.

Auth

• FastAPI Auth - Pluggable auth that supports the OAuth2 Password Flow with JWT access and refresh tokens.
• FastAPI Cloud Auth - Simple integration between FastAPI and cloud authentication services (AWS Cognito, Auth0, Firebase Authentication).
• FastAPI Login - Account management and authentication (based on Flask-Login).
• FastAPI JWT Auth - JWT auth (based on Flask-JWT-Extended).
• FastAPI Permissions - Row-level permissions.
• FastAPI Security - Implements authentication and authorization as dependencies in FastAPI.
• FastAPI Simple Security - Out-of-the-box API key security manageable through path operations.
• FastAPI Users - Account management, authentication, authorization.

Databases

ORMs

• FastAPI SQLAlchemy - Simple integration between FastAPI and SQLAlchemy.
• Tortoise ORM - An easy-to-use asyncio ORM (Object Relational Mapper) inspired by Django.
  • FastAPI Example - An example of the Tortoise-ORM FastAPI integration.
  • Tutorial: Setting up Tortoise ORM with FastAPI
  • Aerich - Tortoise ORM migrations tools.
• GINO - A lightweight asynchronous ORM built on top of SQLAlchemy core for Python asyncio.
  • FastAPI Example
• ORM - An async ORM.
• ormar - An async mini ORM for Python.
• Piccolo - An async ORM and query builder, supporting Postgres and SQLite, with batteries (migrations, security, etc).
  • FastAPI Examples - Using FastAPI with Piccolo.
  • Piccolo Admin - A powerful and modern admin GUI, using the Piccolo ORM.

Query Builders

• asyncpgsa - A wrapper around asyncpg for use with SQLAlchemy Core.
• Databases - Async SQL query builder that works on top of the SQLAlchemy Core expression language.

ODMs

• Beanie - Asynchronous Python ODM for MongoDB, based on Motor and Pydantic, which supports data and schema migrations out of the box.
• MongoEngine - A Document-Object Mapper (think ORM, but for document databases) for working with MongoDB from Python.
• Motor - Asynchronous Python driver for MongoDB.
• ODMantic - AsyncIO MongoDB ODM integrated with Pydantic.

Other Tools

• Pydantic-SQLAlchemy - Convert SQLAlchemy models to Pydantic models.
• FastAPI-CamelCase - CamelCase JSON support for FastAPI utilizing Pydantic.
  • CamelCase Models with FastAPI and Pydantic - Accompanying blog post from the author of the extension.

Developer Tools

• FastAPI Code Generator - Create a FastAPI app from an OpenAPI file, enabling schema-driven development.
• FastAPI Client Generator - Generate a mypy- and IDE-friendly API client from an OpenAPI spec.
• FastAPI Profiler - A FastAPI Middleware of joerick/pyinstrument to check your service performance.
• FastAPI Versioning - API versioning.
• Jupyter Notebook REST API - Run your Jupyter notebooks as RESTful API endpoints.
• Manage FastAPI - CLI tool for generating and managing FastAPI projects.
• msgpack-asgi - Automatic MessagePack content negotiation.

Email

• FastAPI Mail - Lightweight mail system for sending emails and attachments (individual and bulk).

Utils

• FastAPI Cache - A simple lightweight cache system.
• FastAPI Contrib - Opinionated set of utilities: pagination, auth middleware, permissions, custom exception handlers, MongoDB support, and Opentracing middleware.
• FastAPI CRUDRouter - A FastAPI router that automatically creates and documents CRUD routes for your models.
• FastAPI Limiter - A request rate limiter for FastAPI.
• FastAPI MQTT - An extension for the MQTT protocol.
• FastAPI Pagination - Pagination for FastAPI.
• FastAPI Plugins - Redis and Scheduler plugins.
• FastAPI ServiceUtils - Generator for creating API services.
• FastAPI SocketIO - Easy integration for FastAPI and SocketIO.
• FastAPI Utilities - Reusable utilities: class-based views, response inferring router, periodic tasks, timing middleware, SQLAlchemy session, OpenAPI spec simplification.
• FastAPI Websocket Pub/Sub - The classic pub/sub pattern made easily accessible and scalable over the web and across your cloud in realtime.
• FastAPI Websocket RPC - RPC (bidirectional JSON RPC) over Websockets made easy, robust, and production ready.
• Prerender Python Starlette - Starlette middleware for Prerender.
• Prometheus FastAPI Instrumentator - A configurable and modular Prometheus Instrumentator for your FastAPI application.
• SlowApi - Rate limiter (based on Flask-Limiter).
• Starlette Context - Allows you to store and access the request data anywhere in your project, useful for logging.
• Starlette Exporter - One more prometheus integration for FastAPI and Starlette.
• Starlette OpenTracing - Opentracing support for Starlette and FastAPI.
• Starlette Prometheus - Prometheus integration for FastAPI and Starlette.

Resources

Official Resources

• Documentation - Comprehensive documentation.
• Tutorial - Official tutorial showing you how to use FastAPI with most of its features, step by step.
• Source Code - Hosted on GitHub.
• Gitter Chat - Chat with other FastAPI users.

External Resources

• TestDriven.io FastAPI - Multiple FastAPI-specific articles that focus on developing and testing production-ready RESTful APIs, serving up machine learning models, and more.

Podcasts

• Build The Next Generation Of Python Web Applications With FastAPI - In this episode of Podcast Init, the create of FastAPI, Sebastián Ramirez, shares his motivations for building FastAPI and how it works under the hood.
• FastAPI on PythonBytes - Nice overview of the project.

Articles

• FastAPI has Ruined Flask Forever for Me
• Why we switched from Flask to FastAPI for production machine learning - In-depth look at why you may want to move from Flask to FastAPI.

Tutorials

• Demystifying Authentication with FastAPI and a Frontend - Add token-based authentication.
• Deploy a Dockerized FastAPI App to Google Cloud Platform - A short guide to deploying a Dockerized Python app to Google Cloud Platform using Cloud Run and a SQL instance.
• Deploy Machine Learning Models with Keras, FastAPI, Redis and Docker
• Deploying Iris Classifications with FastAPI and Docker - Dockerizing a FastAPI application.
• Developing and Testing an Asynchronous API with FastAPI and Pytest - Develop and test an asynchronous API with FastAPI, Postgres, Pytest, and Docker using Test-Driven Development.
• FastAPI for Flask Users - Learn FastAPI with a side-by-side code comparison to Flask.
• FastAPI Microservice Patterns - Blog post series with exemplary implementations of microservice patterns.
  • Local Development Environment - Skaffold, docker, kubectl and minikube in a nutshell.
  • Service discovery in Container Orchestration Platforms - Enabling FastAPI service communication in Kubernetes explained.
  • Asynchronous Communication - Enabling loosely coupled services with messaging.
  • Application Monitoring - Application metric monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Serverless Deployment - About the current status of the compatibility between FastAPI and Kubernetes-native FaaS platforms.
• How to deploy your ConvNet classifier with Keras and FastAPI - Deploy a machine learning model via a web-based API.
• How to monitor your FastAPI service - Explains how to implement Application Performance Monitoring (APM) using OpenTelemetry and Datadog/Jaeger.
• Implementing FastAPI Services – Abstraction and Separation of Concerns - FastAPI application and service structure for a more maintainable codebase.
• Introducing FARM Stack - FastAPI, React, and MongoDB - Getting started with a complete FastAPI web application stack.
• Introduction to the FastAPI Python Framework - Quick intro to FastAPI.
• Porting Flask to FastAPI for ML Model Serving - Comparison of Flask vs FastAPI.
• Real-time data streaming using FastAPI and WebSockets - Learn how to stream data from FastAPI directly into a real-time chart.
• Serving Machine Learning Models with FastAPI in Python - Use FastAPI to quickly and easily deploy and serve machine learning models in Python as a RESTful API.
• Using Hypothesis and Schemathesis to Test FastAPI - Apply property-based testing to FastAPI.

Talks

• PyConBY 2020: Serve ML models easily with FastAPI - From the talk by Sebastian Ramirez you will learn how to easily build a production-ready web (JSON) API for your ML models with FastAPI, including best practices by default.
• PyCon UK 2019: FastAPI from the ground up - This talk shows how to build a simple REST API for a database from the ground up using FastAPI.

Videos

• Building a Stock Screener with FastAPI - A you build a web-based stock screener with FastAPI, you'll be introduced to many of FastAPI's features, including pydantic models, dependency injection, background tasks, and SQLAlchemy integration.
• Building Web APIs Using FastAPI - Use FastAPI to build a web application programming interface (RESTful API).
• FastAPI - A Web Framework for Python - See how to do numeric validations with FastAPI.
• FastAPI vs. Django vs. Flask - Which framework is best for Python in 2020? Which uses async/await the best? Which is the fastest?
• Serving Machine Learning Models As API with FastAPI - Build a machine learning API with FastAPI.

Courses

• Test-Driven Development with FastAPI and Docker - Learn how to build, test, and deploy a text summarization microservice with Python, FastAPI, and Docker.
• Modern APIs with FastAPI and Python - A course designed to get you creating new APIs running in the cloud with FastAPI quickly.
• Full Web Apps with FastAPI Course - You'll learn to build full web apps with FastAPI, equivalent to what you can do with Flask or Django.

Hosting

PaaS

(Platforms-as-a-Service)

• Heroku (Step-by-step tutorial, ML model on Heroku tutorial)
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Google App Engine
• Microsoft Azure App Service
• Deta (example)

IaaS

(Infrastructure-as-a-Service)

• AWS EC2
• Google Compute Engine
• Digital Ocean
• Linode

Serverless

Frameworks:

• Chalice
• Mangum - Adapter for running ASGI applications with AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
• Vercel - (formerly Zeit) (example).
• Zappa

Compute:

• AWS Lambda (tutorial, code)
• Google Cloud Functions
• Azure Functions
• Google Cloud Run (example)

Projects

Boilerplate

• Full Stack FastAPI and PostgreSQL - Base Project Generator - Full stack, modern web application generator, which includes FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, Celery, Vue frontend, automatic HTTPS and more (developed by the creator of FastAPI, Sebastián Ramírez).
• FastAPI and Tortoise ORM - Powerful but simple template for web APIs w/ FastAPI (as web framework) and Tortoise-ORM (for working via database without headache).
• FastAPI Model Server Skeleton - Skeleton app to serve machine learning models production-ready.
• cookiecutter-spacy-fastapi - Quick deployments of spaCy models with FastAPI.
• cookiecutter-fastapi - Cookiecutter template for FastAPI projects using: Machine Learning, Poetry, Azure Pipelines and pytest.
• openapi-python-client - Generate modern FastAPI Python clients (via FastAPI) from OpenAPI.
• Pywork - Yeoman generator to scaffold a FastAPI app.
• uvicorn-gunicorn-fastapi-docker - Docker image with Uvicorn managed by Gunicorn for high-performance FastAPI web applications in Python 3.7 and 3.6 with performance auto-tuning.
• fastapi-gino-arq-uvicorn - Template for a high-performance async REST API, in Python. FastAPI + GINO + Arq + Uvicorn (w/ Redis and PostgreSQL).
• FastAPI and React Template - Full stack cookiecutter boilerplate using FastAPI, TypeScript, Docker, PostgreSQL, and React.
• FastAPI Nano - Simple FastAPI template with factory pattern architecture.
• inboard - Docker images to power your FastAPI apps and help you ship faster.
• FastAPI Cookiecutter Template for building Python 3.9+ FastAPI REST API applications using best practices and design patterns: Async database access (Encode Databases), Correct ASGI Lifespan events management, Docker image for deployment based on multi-stage builds, Session management, Cache using Redis (aioredis), Asynchronous tests based on httpx and alt-pytest-asyncio, creates Mercurial/Git hooks for pre-commit and pre-push events, etc.

Open Source Projects

• Awesome FastAPI Projects - Organized list of projects that use FastAPI.
• Bitcart - Platform for merchants, users and developers which offers easy setup and use.
• Coronavirus-tg-api - API for tracking the global coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) outbreak.
• Dispatch - Manage security incidents.
• FastAPI CRUD Example:
  • Async flavor
  • Sync Flavor
• FastAPI Websocket Broadcast - Websocket 'broadcast' demo.
• FastAPI with Celery, RabbitMQ, and Redis - Minimal example utilizing FastAPI and Celery with RabbitMQ for task queue, Redis for Celery backend, and Flower for monitoring the Celery tasks.
• JSON-RPC Server - JSON-RPC server based on FastAPI.
• Mailer - Dead-simple mailer micro-service for static websites.
• OPAL (Open Policy Administration Layer) - Real-time authorization updates on top of Open-Policy; built with FastAPI, Typer, and FastAPI WebSocket pub/sub.
• RealWorld Example App - mongo
• RealWorld Example App - postgres
• redis-streams-fastapi-chat - A simple Redis Streams backed chat app using Websockets, Asyncio and FastAPI/Starlette.
• Sprites as a service - Generate your personal 8-bit avatars using Cellular Automata.
• Slackers - Slack webhooks API.
• TermPair - View and control terminals from your browser with end-to-end encryption.
• Universities - API service for obtaining information about +9600 universities worldwide.

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