FastAPI Flashcards

FastAPI is a modern, high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python 3.7+ based on standard Python type hints.

It is built on top of Starlette and Pydantic and uses asynchronous programming to achieve high performance.

Pydantic handles data validation and parsing using Python type annotations.

Run pip install fastapi[all] to install FastAPI with optional dependencies like Uvicorn.

Uvicorn is an ASGI server used to run FastAPI apps asynchronously.

You can use FastAPI’s TestClient with pytest or unittest for endpoint testing.

FastAPI auto-generates OpenAPI docs and a Swagger UI interface based on your route declarations.

Use OAuth2, JWT tokens, or FastAPI’s Security utilities for authentication and authorization.

Define routes using the @app.get(), @app.post(), etc., decorators within Python files.

Yes, by using Starlette’s StaticFiles class to mount directories like /static.