Summary
It is not easy to cover the basics of such a rich web framework in a relatively short number of pages. Rather than diving deep into specific topics, we covered very simple examples of how FastAPI achieves the most common REST API tasks and the way it can help you, as a developer, by leveraging modern Python features and libraries such as Pydantic.
In this chapter, you learned how FastAPI enables you to perform requests and responses through HTTP and how you can tap into it, at any point, and customize and access the elements of the request, as well as the response. We briefly addressed headers and cookies, query strings and paths, forms and files, and the main part of the cycle: the request and the response bodies.
Finally, you learned how to split your API into routers and how to organize your app into logical resource-based units.
There are many features of the framework that we haven’t mentioned and that you are highly likely to encounter in even the simplest...
