Getting into the world of Fast API

python -m venv "name-of-the venv"

"name-of-the-venv"\Scripts\activate [for windows]

~/Projects/FastAPI$ "name-of-the-venv"\bin\activate [for Ubuntu]

• if there's an error of permission denied in case of Ubuntu use:

~/Projects/FastAPI$ . "name-of-the-venv"\bin\activate [for Ubuntu]

pip install fastapi

pip install uvicorn (or hypercorn)

pip install tortoise-orm

uvicorn app:app --reload

• here first app is the name of the file.

• http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs will open an interactive GUI for testing the API.

• http://127.0.0.1:8000/redoc another GUI for testing and explaining endpoints.

• 1. FLask v/s Django v/s FastAPI
• 2. FastAPI DOCS
• 3. Tortoise ORM