Welcome to FastAPI Masterclass, a comprehensive introduction to backend development in Python with FastAPI. FastAPI is a Python framework for building fast, modern server-side applications and APIs. It has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Today, it has more than 100,000 stars on GitHub and more daily downloads than Django and Flask on PyPi. It powers applications in companies like Netflix, Microsoft, Uber, OpenAI, and Amazon.
One of FastAPI’s greatest strengths is its flexibility. Unlike larger frameworks that impose a specific structure, FastAPI gives developers the freedom to choose how their applications are organized. You can customize the folder structure, database, ORM, authentication system, validation rules, testing strategy, and architecture. No previous backend development experience is required. This course follows a linear progression, beginning with the fundamentals and gradually advancing to topics such as authorization, authentication, testing, architecture, and more.
Topics covered:
- Clients and servers
- Routes and HTTP methods
- Path parameters
- Query parameters
- Debugging with Visual Studio Code
- Cookies and Headers
- FastAPI Validator Functions (Path, Query, Cookie, Header, and More)
- Dependencies (Functions, Classes, and Other Callables) and Dependency Injection (DI)
- Object-Relational Mappers (ORM)
- Database Queries
- Database Migrations
- Codebase Structure
- Password hashing
- JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
- Authentication
- Authorization
- and more!
