Random User Generator Demo

Creator

• Name: Wanda McCrae
• Date: February 2024

A FastAPI backend that fetches randomly generated users from the Random User Generator API and saves them to a PostgreSQL database.

Project Initialization

How to use this application locally using Docker:

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. CD into the new directory.
3. Run docker volume create fastapidemo-data.
4. Run docker-compose build --no-cache.
5. Run docker-compose up.

If you are using Docker Desktop, you can interact with the containers in that application. To interact with the FastAPI container from the terminal:

6. Run docker exec -it random-user-demo-fastapi-1 bash.

Design

After the application is running locally, you can interact with the application's documentation in your web browser.