Full Stack FastAPI Template

Technology Stack and Features

⚡ FastAPI for the Python backend API.
- 🧰 SQLModel for the Python SQL database interactions (ORM).
- 🔍 Pydantic, used by FastAPI, for the data validation and settings management.
- 💾 PostgreSQL as the SQL database.
🚀 React for the frontend.
- 💃 Using TypeScript, hooks, Vite, and other parts of a modern frontend stack.
- 🎨 Chakra UI for the frontend components.
- 🤖 An automatically generated frontend client.
- 🦇 Dark mode support.
🐋 Docker Compose for development and production.
🔒 Secure password hashing by default.
🔑 JWT token authentication.
📫 Email based password recovery.
✅ Tests with Pytest.
📞 Traefik as a reverse proxy / load balancer.
🚢 Deployment instructions using Docker Compose, including how to set up a frontend Traefik proxy to handle automatic HTTPS certificates.
🏭 CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous deployment) based on GitHub Actions.

You can just fork or clone this repository and use it as is.

✨ It just works. ✨

You can then update configs in the .env files to customize your configurations.

Before deploying it, make sure you change at least the values for:

Some environment variables in the .env file have a default value of changethis.

You have to change them with a secret key, to generate secret keys you can run the following command:

python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))"

Copy the content and use that as password / secret key. And run that again to generate another secure key.

This repository also supports generating a new project using Copier.

It will copy all the files, ask you configuration questions, and update the .env files with your answers.

You can install Copier with:

pip install copier

Or better, if you have pipx, you can run it with:

pipx install copier

Note: If you have pipx, installing copier is optional, you could run it directly.

Decide a name for your new project's directory, you will use it below. For example, my-awesome-project.

Go to the directory that will be the parent of your project, and run the command with your project's name:

copier copy https://github.com/tiangolo/full-stack-fastapi-template my-awesome-project --trust

If you have pipx and you didn't install copier, you can run it directly:

pipx run copier copy https://github.com/tiangolo/full-stack-fastapi-template my-awesome-project --trust

Note the --trust option is necessary to be able to execute a post-creation script that updates your .env files.

Copier will ask you for some data, you might want to have at hand before generating the project.

But don't worry, you can just update any of that in the .env files afterwards.

The input variables, with their default values (some auto generated) are:

project_name: (default: "FastAPI Project") The name of the project, shown to API users (in .env).
stack_name: (default: "fastapi-project") The name of the stack used for Docker Compose labels (no spaces) (in .env).
secret_key: (default: "changethis") The secret key for the project, used for security, stored in .env, you can generate one with the method above.
first_superuser: (default: "admin@example.com") The email of the first superuser (in .env).
first_superuser_password: (default: "changethis") The password of the first superuser (in .env).
smtp_host: (default: "") The SMTP server host to send emails, you can set it later in .env.
smtp_user: (default: "") The SMTP server user to send emails, you can set it later in .env.
smtp_password: (default: "") The SMTP server password to send emails, you can set it later in .env.
emails_from_email: (default: "info@example.com") The email account to send emails from, you can set it later in .env.
postgres_password: (default: "changethis") The password for the PostgreSQL database, stored in .env, you can generate one with the method above.
sentry_dsn: (default: "") The DSN for Sentry, if you are using it, you can set it later in .env.