CRUD operations in MongoDB

CRUD operations form the cornerstone of data manipulation in databases, enabling users to create, read, update, and delete data entities with efficiency, flexibility, and scalability.

This recipe will demonstrate how to create endpoints in FastAPI for creating, reading, updating, and deleting a document from a MongoDB database for the backbone of our streaming platform.

Getting ready

To follow along with the recipe, you need a database connection with MongoDB already in place with your application, otherwise, go to the previous recipe, Setting up MongoDB with FastAPI, which will show you in detail how to do it.

How to do it…

Before creating the endpoints for the CRUD operations, we have to initialize a database on the MongoDB instance for our streaming application.

Let’s do it in a dedicated module in the app directory called database.py as follows:

from app.db_connection import mongo_client
database = mongo_client.beat_streaming...