Build An Application with FastAPI from Scratch

A step-by-step guide to creating a full API with a database

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Introduction

FastAPI is a relatively new and trending Python web framework for building APIs. FastAPI’s tag line includes its benefits over other popular web frameworks such as Flask and Django — “high performance, easy to learn, fast to code”.