How to create FastAPI with MongoDB?

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FastAPI + Beanie + MongoDB

Here's the directory structure

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├── app
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── main.py
│   ├── auth
│   │   ├── auth_handler.py
│   │   ├── auth_token.py
│   │   └── auth_user.py
│   └── server
│       ├── app.py
│       ├── database.py
│       ├── models
│       └── routes
└── requirements.txt

main.py

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Responsible for running the app on server

📁 auth/

Handles the authentication processes.

📁 server/

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Contains database schema and API routes.

📁 models/

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Contains files that define the structure of your database documents. (This is a NoSQL Database so, there's no tabular schema)

📁 routes/

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Handles all the requests and responses

app.py

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Registers and handles urls and runs the FastAPI instance.

database.py

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Handles the connection with the database and as well as all the interactions between MongoDB server and the FastAPI server.

Setting up the Development Environment

Create Virtual Environment

virtualenv env

Activate env

source env/Scripts/activate

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the project

python app/main.py

or

$ cd app/server

$ uvicorn app:app --reload

Technologies & Links

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