skylerburger / mycoll_v2

MyColl v2

This project is a simple attempt at rebuilding a personal project in FastAPI to see how it differs from Django.

Tools

Tool	Function	Replaces from v1
FastAPI	Web Framework	Django
-	API Documentation	Postman
Pydantic	Data Validation & Serialization	djangorestframework
SQLAlchemy ORM	Object Relational Mapper	Django (Django ORM)
Alembic	Database Migration Management	Django
pgAdmin	Database Management UI	Django
Psycopg2	Implements Python's DBAPI	same for both versions
PostgreSQL	Database	same for both versions
Uvicorn	Server	gunicorn
Passlib	Encryption (for passwords)	Django (auth)
Python-jose	Creation and Interpretation of JWTs	djangorestframework-simplejwt
Python-dotenv	Environment Variables Management	django-environ

Resources

The following resources were referred to during this rebuild:

• FastAPI - User Guide
• YouTube - Tech with Tim - Python FastAPI Tutorial
• YouTube - Bitfumes - FastAPI - A Python Framework | Full Course
• Compose - Using PostgreSQL through SQLAlchemy
• Alembic - Tutorial
• Alembic - Auto Generating Migrations
• Towards Data Science - How to Run PostgreSQL and pgAdmin Using Docker
• Pydantic - Usage - Schema