Welcome to the FastAPI Template documentation. This directory contains comprehensive guides to help you understand, develop, deploy, and maintain applications built with this template.
Learn about the clean architecture principles, layer organization, and design patterns used in this template:
- Repository pattern implementation
- Dependency injection
- Layer architecture (API, Core, Models, Schemas, Repositories)
- Data flow and request handling
- Authentication & authorization architecture
- Database and migration strategy
- Error handling and middleware
- Logging architecture (multi-worker safe, distributed tracing, centralized aggregation)
- Security architecture
- Performance considerations
Best for: New developers joining the project, architectural decisions, understanding code organization.
Complete guide for local development environment setup and daily development tasks:
- Prerequisites and installation
- Environment configuration
- Database setup and migrations
- Running the application
- Code quality tools (Black, pre-commit hooks)
- Testing strategies and execution
- Debugging techniques
- Rate limiting configuration
- BackBlaze B2, Firebase, Firestore integration guides
- Google Cloud Storage (GCS) integration
- Apple Pay (App Store Server API) integration
- Security middleware (CSRF, security headers)
- Token blacklisting and logout
- Cache decorators
- Development best practices
- Common troubleshooting
Best for: Developers starting work on the project, setting up development environment, writing tests.
Comprehensive API documentation including all endpoints, request/response formats, and examples:
- Authentication flow (login, signup, refresh tokens, logout)
- User management endpoints
- Health check endpoint
- Request/response schemas
- Error handling and status codes
- Authentication implementation
- CORS configuration
- Rate limiting (implemented with Redis sliding window)
- Complete usage examples (curl, Python, JavaScript)
Best for: Frontend developers, API consumers, integration developers, testing APIs.
Production deployment strategies, configuration, and monitoring:
- Environment configuration
- Docker deployment (Dockerfile, Docker Compose)
- Traditional server deployment
- Process management (Supervisor, systemd)
- Nginx reverse proxy setup
- SSL/TLS configuration
- Cloud platform deployment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Monitoring and logging
- Performance optimization
- Security hardening
Best for: DevOps engineers, deployment planning, production environment setup.
- Start developing → Development Guide
- Understand the codebase → Architecture
- Use the API → API Reference
- Deploy to production → Deployment Guide
| Task | Documentation Section |
|---|---|
| Install and run locally | Development > Environment Setup |
| Create database migrations | Development > Database Management |
| Run tests | Development > Testing |
| Add new endpoints | Architecture > API Layer |
| Authenticate API requests | API > Authentication |
| Deploy with Docker | Deployment > Docker Deployment |
| Configure environment variables | Deployment > Environment Configuration |
| Set up monitoring | Deployment > Monitoring |
This template is built with:
- FastAPI - Modern Python web framework
- SQLAlchemy 2.0 - Async ORM
- PostgreSQL - Primary database
- Alembic - Database migrations
- Pydantic - Data validation
- JWT - Authentication
- pwdlib - Password hashing with Argon2
- Loguru - Structured logging with centralized aggregation
- Redis - Caching and rate limiting
- Celery - Background task processing
- uvicorn/gunicorn - ASGI server
- B2SDK - BackBlaze B2 cloud storage integration
- Firebase Admin - Firebase authentication, FCM, and Firestore
- Google Cloud Storage - GCS bucket integration
- App Store Server API - Apple Pay in-app purchase verification
- Brevo / Resend - Email delivery provider integrations
Each documentation file follows these principles:
- Clear structure with logical sections
- Code examples for all concepts
- Step-by-step instructions for tasks
- Best practices and recommendations
- Troubleshooting common issues
When updating documentation:
- Keep it current - Update docs with code changes
- Be comprehensive - Include examples and explanations
- Stay organized - Follow existing structure
- Test examples - Ensure all code examples work
- Link related sections - Cross-reference where appropriate
- Update API reference if adding endpoints
- Document new configuration options
- Add migration steps if schema changes
- Update architecture docs for structural changes
- Include usage examples
- Add troubleshooting section if needed
- Update examples if they were incorrect
- Document workarounds
- Update deployment guide
- Document new environment variables
- Update Docker configurations
- Note any breaking changes
- FastAPI Official Docs
- SQLAlchemy Documentation
- Pydantic Documentation
- Alembic Documentation
- PostgreSQL Documentation
- Main README:
../README.md - API Schema:
http://localhost:8799/openapi.json - Interactive Docs:
http://localhost:8799/docs - ReDoc:
http://localhost:8799/redoc
If you can't find what you're looking for in these docs:
- Check the main README for overview information
- Review the interactive API docs at
/docsendpoint - Search through the codebase for examples
- Open an issue on the project repository
- Contact the development team
This documentation is maintained for the FastAPI Template project and is updated regularly. For the latest changes, see the project's git history.
This documentation suite provides everything you need to work with the FastAPI Template:
- Architecture - Understand the system design
- Development - Build and test locally
- API Reference - Integrate and consume the API
- Deployment - Deploy to production
Start with the section most relevant to your role and use the cross-references to navigate to related topics.