A simple starter for building RESTful APIs with FastAPI and MongoDB.

• Python FastAPI backend.
• MongoDB database.
• Authentication
• Deployment

To use the application, follow the outlined steps:

1. Clone this repository and create a virtual environment in it:

$ python3 -m venv venv

2. Install the modules listed in the requirements.txt file:

(venv)$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

3. You also need to start your mongodb instance either locally or on Docker as well as create a .env.dev file. See the .env.sample for configurations.

   Example for running locally MongoDB at port 27017:

   cp .env.sample .env.dev

4. Start the application:

python3 main.py

The starter listens on port 8000 on address 0.0.0.0.

To run the tests, run the following command:

(venv)$ pytest

You can also write your own tests in the tests directory.
The test follow by the official support FastAPI testing guide, pytest, anyio for async testing application.

This application can be deployed on any PaaS such as Heroku or Okteto and any other cloud service provider.

Fork the repo, make changes and send a PR. We'll review it together!

This project is licensed under the terms of MIT license.