FastAPI Workshop - First Steps

In the following chapters I'll show you the code for the FastAPI workshop.

Before we start writing code, we need to set up the environment, install the packages, etc.

Make sure you create a Python virtual environment as described in the previous section Virtual Environments.

Install Dependencies

In your project directory create a file requirements.txt with the following content:

requirements.txt

fastapi
uvicorn
sqlmodel

Make sure you activate your virtual environment and install these packages with the command:

# (env) $$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Development Dependencies

You can also install some packages that are useful during development, they can help you to detect errors, autoformat our code, etc.

You could put them in another file to separate the packages you need to run your application and the packages that are only used during development. For example you could name it dev-requirements.txt.

Here are some of the packages I normally use during development that can be useful to you.

dev-requirements.txt

black
mypy
flake8
isort
autoflake

Then you could install them in your virtual environment with:

# (env) $$ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt