Asynchronous API implementation with Python and FastAPI

How to run

Run

$ docker-compose up -d --build

and go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs

How to run tests

$ docker-compose exec app python -m pytest app/tests

Update

Starting from version 1.4 SQLAlchemy supports asyncio. This means you don't need externla tools like encode/databases. If you are interesting in new styled SQLAlchemy async example you can check this repo.