Getting started with FastApi

Topics of the book

This book is mostly practical, we will learn the basics of FastAPI, knowing its main features based on a small application that we will extend chapter after chapter and whose content you can see below:

1. Chapter 1: We present some essential commands to develop in FastApi , we will prepare the environment and we will give an introduction to the framework .
2. Chapter 2: One of the main factors in FastApi is the creation of resources for the API through functions, in this section we will deal with the basics of this, introducing routing between multiple files as well as the different options for the arguments and parameters of these routes.
3. Chapter 3: In this section, learn how to handle HTTP status codes from API methods and also handle errors/exceptions from API methods.
4. Chapter 4: In this section we will see how to create sample data to use from the automatic documentation that FastAPI offers for each of the API methods.
5. Chapter 5: In this chapter we will see how to implement the upload of files, knowing the different existing variants in FastAPI.
6. Chapter 6: In this chapter we will see how to connect a FastAPI application to a relational database such as MySQL.
7. Chapter 7: In this chapter we will see installing and using a template engine in Python, specifically Jinja, with which we can return responses in HTML format.
8. Chapter 8: In this chapter we will see installing and using a template engine in Python, specifically Jinja, with which we can return responses in HTML format.
9. Chapter 9: In this chapter we will learn how to use dependencies.
10. Chapter 10: In this chapter we will see how to use middleware to intercept requests to API methods and execute some procedure before the request or after generating the response.
11. Chapter 11: In this chapter we will see how to create a user module, to register users, login, generate access tokens and logout.
12. Chapter 12: In this chapter we will see how to implement unit tests.

FastAPI Course Content (From Beginner to Professional APIs)

This content is the same as what I teach in the book, because both are 100% equivalent. And as I always say, "this course stays with you for years, because I keep it updated to new versions at no extra cost."

• Module 1: Routes, views, templates, and first pages
  • Environment setup
  • Simple routes
  • HTML Templates
  • First functional views
  • Here I use an example very similar to the one I built for the initial demo.
• Module 2: Models, forms, and validations
  • Creation of models with Pydantic
  • Form handling
  • Automatic validations
  • Static typing
• Module 3: REST APIs with FastAPI
  • Endpoints
  • Custom responses
  • Error handling
• Module 4: Authentication with tokens (the most important part)
  • JWT
  • Access tokens
  • Security
  • Authentication and authorization
• Module 5: Database, ORM, and queries
  • We integrate real persistence:
  • DB Connection
  • ORM
  • Complete CRUD