FastAPI Template

A FastAPI template with Redis, Docker and PostgreSQL

Introduction

This FastAPI template was created out of a need for consistent structure for projects with a setup that's easy to understand and use with as minimal additional setup as possible.

What is hoped to be achieved

• Simplicity; no need for bloated classes and huge utils that you'll likely never use. Everything here should be very much needed in most projects
• Low barrier for entry; a template that is easy to start with and does not seem too advanced for beginners to use
• Production-ready; the above does not remove the important fact that this should be always production-ready without obvious faults
• Consistency; a smell for codebases is you not having a 'knowing' of where certain code is located. A wanted structure is one that's easy to navigate

What is not hoped to be achieved

• Batteries-included; this template, whilst influenced by Django, does not aim to provide Django-like capabilities or to have a 'Django, but for FastAPI' setup
• Utility dump; this template will not be where all sorts of utilities are dumped because, 'why not?'.

How to use

• Copy .example.env into a file, .env
• Run docker-compose up --build to build and run container. Yes, I expect you to use Docker in this day and age.

The above is enough to run your project except you need more than that if you are working on a real application. So, this:

Personalizing the template

First, head to app/settings and edit Settings.APP_NAME to reflect the name of your application.

Next, you'll want to run pipenv install to ensure you get a Python environment you can attach to your IDE to allow for autocomplete and auto-imports so you don't have yellow and red lines everywhere

After this, we head to the .env to edit some of the values to your taste. Each value is explained in the Config section.

Databases

Databases can be quite dicey and I'm happy to say Alembic is used to handle migrations and whatnots. This coupled with SQLAlchemy makes the world a better place. Whilst PostgreSQL is assumed to be the default database. You can of course edit things to your liking.

• Create migrations with docker-compose run web alembic revision -m "Migration message here".
• Run migrations within Docker with docker-compose run web alembic upgrade head.

Config

This section documents configuration options and the meaning of settings values and how to use them.

Environmental Variables

The environmental variables in the .example.env file have specific purposes:

Key	Description	Default
ALLOWED_HOST	The domain you intend to run this application on	0.0.0.0
SECRET_KEY	A secret value used to hash and sign tokens and other security-related stuffs.	meandyouaretogether
DEBUG	A value that evaluates to a boolean to determine whether the app is run in debug mode or production.	True
PORT	Port the application will run on. If you change this from default, you will have to change the value in the docker-compose.yml file.	11000
POSTGRES_USER	This is the default user for the PostgreSQL database. On first run, Docker will use this value to initialize a postgres user so you'll want to set it before your first execution.	sasori
POSTGRES_PASSWORD	This is the default password for the PostgreSQL database. On first run, Docker will use this value to initialize a postgres database so you'll want to set it before your first execution.	sasori
POSTGRES_DB	This is the default PostgreSQL database created. On first run, Docker will use this value to initialize a postgres database so you'll want to set it before your first execution	akatsuki
POSTGRES_TEST_DB	This is the database created for test cases. It is flushed after every test case is run.	hebi
POSTGRES_PORT	The port Postgres will run on. Don't change it except you know what you're doing, and if you do, change the value in the docker-compose.yml file.	5432
POSTGRES_HOST	The host set in the docker container where the PostgreSQL instance will be running. Don't change it except you know what you're doing, and if you do, change the value in the docker-compose.yml file.	postgres
REDIS_HOST	The host set in the docker container where the Redis instance will be running. Don't change it except you know what you're doing, and if you do, change the value in the docker-compose.yml file.	redis
REDIS_PORT	The port the application will use to connect to Redis. Don't change it except you know what you're doing, and if you do, change the value in the file.

Application Settings

Application settings are set in the app.settings.Settings class and are used to store app wide configurations. Values are so:

key	Description	Default
APP_TITLE	Name of the application, will show in the documentation	App Name
ALLOWED_HOST	The domain you intend to run this application on	Derived from .env with key ALLOWED_HOST
SECRET_KEY	A secret value used to hash and sign tokens and other security-related stuffs.	Derived from .env with key SECRET_KEY
DEBUG	A value that evaluates to a boolean to determine whether the app is run in debug mode or production.	Derived from .env with key DEBUG
ALLOWED_PORT	Port the application will run on. If you change this from default, you will have to change the value in the docker-compose.yml file.	Derived from .env with key PORT
DB_USER	This is the default user for the PostgreSQL database. On first run, Docker will use this value to initialize a postgres user so you'll want to set it before your first execution.	Derived from .env with key POSTGRES_USER
DB_PASSWORD	This is the default password for the PostgreSQL database. On first run, Docker will use this value to initialize a postgres database so you'll want to set it before your first execution.	Derived from .env with key POSTGRES_PASSWORD
DB_DB	This is the default PostgreSQL database created. On first run, Docker will use this value to initialize a postgres database so you'll want to set it before your first execution	Derived from .env with key POSTGRES_DB
DB_PORT	The port Postgres will run on. Don't change it except you know what you're doing, and if you do, change the value in the docker-compose.yml file.	Derived from .env with key POSTGRES_PORT
DB_HOST	The host set in the docker container where the PostgreSQL instance will be running. Don't change it except you know what you're doing, and if you do, change the value in the docker-compose.yml file.

I don't want some things

There is the possibility that you may not want some features such as Redis. You can easily remove what you don't need and proceed as planned.