Awesome FastAPI – Massive Collection of Resources

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
  • 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 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.

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

• 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 Client Generator – Generate a mypy- and IDE-friendly API client from an OpenAPI spec.
• 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 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.
• 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 Prometheus – Prometheus integration for FastAPI and Starlette.
• Starlette Exporter – One more prometheus integration for FastAPI and Starlette.
• Starlette-OpenTracing – Opentracing support for Starlette and FastAPI.

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.

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

• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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 – Tempate 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.