Tech Stack:

1. Backend Framework:

   • FastAPI (v0.118.0) - Modern, fast web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7+
   • Uvicorn - ASGI server for running FastAPI applications
   • Starlette - Lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit (dependency of FastAPI)

2. Database:

   • SQLAlchemy (v2.0.43) - SQL toolkit and ORM
   • PostgreSQL (psycopg2-binary v2.9.10)
   • Redis (v6.4.0) - For caching and/or pub/sub
   • Alembic (v1.16.5) - Database migration tool

3. Authentication & Security:

   • Python-Jose (v3.5.0) - JWT implementation
   • Passlib (v1.7.4) - Password hashing
   • Bcrypt (v5.0.0) - Password hashing
   • Cryptography (v46.0.1) - Additional cryptographic functionality

4. API Documentation:

   • Built-in OpenAPI/Swagger UI (via FastAPI)
   • ReDoc documentation

5. Development & Testing:

   • Pytest (v8.4.2) - Testing framework
   • Pytest-asyncio (v1.2.0) - Async test support
   • HTTPX (v0.28.1) - HTTP client for testing

6. Configuration & Environment:

   • Pydantic (v2.11.9) - Data validation and settings management
   • Python-dotenv (v1.1.1) - Environment variable management

Production-Ready Components:

1. API Structure:

   • Versioned API endpoints (v1)
   • Well-organized project structure with separate modules for:
     • API routes
     • Database models
     • Schemas (Pydantic models)
     • Core utilities
     • Middleware
     • Configuration

2. Security Features:

   • CORS middleware with configurable allowed origins
   • Trusted Host middleware
   • JWT-based authentication
   • Secure password hashing with bcrypt
   • Environment-based configuration

3. Infrastructure:

   • Containerization-ready (Docker)
   • Environment-specific configuration
   • Database migrations with Alembic

4. Monitoring & Logging:

   • Custom logging middleware
   • Structured logging setup
   • Error handling middleware

5. Performance:

   • Async/await support
   • Uvicorn with uvloop for better performance
   • Redis for caching

6. API Documentation:

   • Auto-generated OpenAPI documentation
   • Interactive API documentation (Swagger UI)
   • Alternative documentation (ReDoc)