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FastAPI Tutorial

Build a complete, real-world API with FastAPI, one clear step at a time. Follow Maya, who runs a small bakery called Sweet Crumbs, as her idea grows from a single "hello" endpoint into a secure, tested, deployed API. Beginner friendly: if you know a little Python, you are ready.

📚 12 lessons▶ 25:49+ of video💻 78 code examples🖼 23 screenshots
The complete FastAPI course, free on YouTubeWatch on YouTube ↗

What you will learn

  • What an API is, and why FastAPI
  • Path parameters, query parameters and request bodies, with automatic validation
  • Response models, status codes and a full CRUD API
  • Dependencies (dependency injection)
  • Authentication with password hashing and JWT
  • A real SQLite database with SQLModel
  • Async, background tasks, middleware and CORS
  • Routers, project structure and tests with pytest
  • Deploying with Docker

Course contents

Every lesson has its own page with the explanation, code you can copy, the real output, screenshots from the video, and a link that jumps straight to that moment in the video.

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