Python FastAPI Template

About The Project

This project was completed as part of Python API Development - Comprehensive Course for Beginners form freeCodeCamp. I am tasked to make full use of FastAPI and Python knowledge and its accompanying documentation to create an APIs for social media applications.

Technologies

This project was created with:

• Python
• FastAPI
• PostgreSQL

Installation

Run Locally

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/SupTarr/Python-FastAPI-Template.git

Virtual environment on windows

To install virtualenv via pip

py -m pip install --user virtualenv

To create a virtual environment for your project, open a new command prompt, navigate to the folder where you want to create your project and then enter the following:

py -m virtualenv .

To activate the environment, run:

.\Scripts\activate.bat

(Python-FastAPI-Template) C:\Users\tatas\Desktop\SupTarr\Workspace\Python-FastAPI-Template>

In the command prompt, ensure your virtual environment is active, and execute the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

FastAPI

uvicorn app.main:app --reload