- YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sOvCWFmrtA
- Repo: https://github.com/Sanjeev-Thiyagarajan/fastapi-course.git
- FastAPI doc: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/ and: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/sql-databases/
- CORS: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/cors/
- JWT Decoder: https://jwt.io/
- Postgres Tutorial : https://www.postgresqltutorial.com/install-postgresql-linux/
- SQLAlchemy doc: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/
- Alembic: https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/tutorial.html
- Heroku: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python
# Create virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
# Activate it
source venv/bin/activate
# make sure pip is up to date
pip install --upgrade pip
# install project's requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
# start database engine
docker compose up -d
# Initialize alembic file structure
alembic init alembic
# copy the project ini file
cp app/alembic.env.py alembic/env.py
# Autogenerate the database schema creation file
alembic revision --autogenerate -m "Application schema"
# Execute the schema creation
alembic upgrade head
# Start Web server:
uvicorn app.main:app --reload
# heroku login via cli
# Email: your email
# Password: heroku generated token
heroku login -i
# Create app with global name. Only do this once
heroku apps:create fastapi-dessyd
# push content to herou
git push heroku main
# Access the app
# go to https://fastapi-dessyd.herokuapp.com/
# Add postgres
heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev
All environment variables are stored in a .env file having the following structure:
# DB section
DATABASE_DRIVER=postgresql
DATABASE_HOSTNAME=<target host>
DATABASE_PORT=5432
DATABASE_NAME=<DB name>
DATABASE_USERNAME=<db user>
DATABASE_PASSWORD=<db password
# oauth section
# to get a SECRET_KEY string run:
# openssl rand -hex 32
SECRET_KEY=<oauth session secret key>
ALGORITHM=HS256
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES=60
Set environment from .env syntax ( no export)
set -o allexport; source ~/.env ; set +o allexport