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Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI

You're reading from   Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI A fast-paced guide to building high-performance, robust web APIs with very little boilerplate code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076630
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abdulazeez Abdulazeez
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: An Introduction to FastAPI
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with FastAPI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Routing in FastAPI 4. Chapter 3: Response Models and Error Handling 5. Chapter 4: Templating in FastAPI 6. Part 2: Building and Securing FastAPI Applications
7. Chapter 5: Structuring FastAPI Applications 8. Chapter 6: Connecting to a Database 9. Chapter 7: Securing FastAPI Applications 10. Part 3: Testing And Deploying FastAPI Applications
11. Chapter 8: Testing FastAPI Applications 12. Chapter 9: Deploying FastAPI Applications 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Package management with pip

A FastAPI application constitutes packages, therefore you will be introduced to package management practices, such as installing packages, removing packages, and updating packages for your application.

Installing packages from the source can turn out to be a cumbersome task as, most of the time, it involves downloading and unzipping .tar.gz files before manual installation. In a scenario where a hundred packages are to be installed, this method becomes inefficient. Then, how do you automate this process?

Pip is a Python package manager like JavaScript’s yarn; it enables you to automate the process of installing Python packages – both globally and locally.

Installing pip

Pip is automatically installed during a Python installation. You can verify whether pip is installed by running the following command in your terminal:

$ python3 -m pip list

The preceding command should return a list of packages installed. The output should be similar to the following figure:

Figure 1.5 – List of installed Python packages

Figure 1.5 – List of installed Python packages

If the command returns an error, follow the instructions at https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/ to install pip.

Basic commands

With pip installed, let’s learn its basic commands. To install the FastAPI package with pip, we run the following command:

$ pip install fastapi

On a Unix operating system, such as Mac or Linux, in some cases, the sudo keyword is prepended to install global packages.

To uninstall a package, the following command is used:

$ pip uninstall fastapi

To collate the current packages installed in a project into a file, we use the following freeze command:

$ pip freeze > requirements.txt

The > operator tells bash to save the output from the command into the requirements.txt file. This means that running pip freeze returns an output of all the currently installed packages.

To install packages from a file such as the requirements.txt file, the following command is used:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

The preceding command is mostly used in deployment.

Now that you have learned the basics of pip and have gone over some basic commands, let’s learn the basics of Docker.

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Building Python Web APIs with FastAPI
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