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FastAPI

Modern, fast web framework for building APIs with Python.

Overview

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance) web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.

Features

  • Fast performance
  • Fast to code
  • Fewer bugs
  • Intuitive
  • Easy
  • Standards-based
  • Automatic documentation

Getting Started

bash
pip install fastapi "uvicorn[standard]"

Basic Example

python
from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()

@app.get("/")
async def root():
    return {"message": "Hello World"}

@app.get("/items/{item_id}")
async def read_item(item_id: int, q: str | None = None):
    return {"item_id": item_id, "q": q}

PAPER-CODE Integration

PAPER-CODE provides:

  • FastAPI project templates
  • Database integrations
  • Authentication setups
  • Testing configurations

Resources