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Seth HobsonCommunityCreated by Seth Hobson

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Create production-ready FastAPI projects with async patterns, dependency injection, and comprehensive error handling. Use when building new FastAPI applications or setting up backend API projects.
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This skill provides a standardized project structure and implementation patterns for FastAPI applications. It emphasizes high-performance asynchronous programming, utilizing SQLAlchemy 2.0 with async drivers, Pydantic for data validation, and a modular architecture that separates concerns into APIs, services, repositories, and core configurations. It includes best practices for dependency injection, database session management, and testing with pytest-asyncio.

What it does

  • Defines a modular project directory structure for FastAPI applications.
  • Implements asynchronous database interactions using SQLAlchemy 2.0.
  • Provides a repository pattern for clean data access layer management.
  • Configures dependency injection for database sessions and application settings.
  • Includes boilerplate for CORS middleware and application lifespan events.
  • Offers testing patterns using pytest-asyncio and httpx for integration tests.

When to use it

  • When starting a new FastAPI project from scratch.
  • When you need a scalable architecture for a high-performance web service.
  • When implementing asynchronous REST APIs with PostgreSQL or MongoDB.
  • When you want to enforce consistent dependency injection and error handling patterns.

Advantages

  • Promotes clean code through separation of concerns (API, services, repositories).
  • Ensures production-readiness with async-first patterns.
  • Simplifies testing with pre-configured async test fixtures.
  • Reduces setup time for standard backend API requirements.

Usage examples

“How should I structure a new FastAPI project for scalability?”
The skill provides a recommended directory layout separating API routes, business logic, data models, and repositories to ensure maintainability.
“How do I implement an async database session in FastAPI?”
The skill provides a pattern using SQLAlchemy's AsyncSession with a dependency injection function that handles session lifecycle, commits, and rollbacks.

Install

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Documentation by Seth Hobson

FastAPI Project Templates

Production-ready FastAPI project structures with async patterns, dependency injection, middleware, and best practices for building high-performance APIs.

When to Use This Skill

  • Starting new FastAPI projects from scratch

  • Implementing async REST APIs with Python

  • Building high-performance web services and microservices

  • Creating async applications with PostgreSQL, MongoDB

  • Setting up API projects with proper structure and testing

Core Concepts

1. Project Structure

Recommended Layout:

app/
├── api/                    # API routes
│   ├── v1/
│   │   ├── endpoints/
│   │   │   ├── users.py
│   │   │   ├── auth.py
│   │   │   └── items.py
│   │   └── router.py
│   └── dependencies.py     # Shared dependencies
├── core/                   # Core configuration
│   ├── config.py
│   ├── security.py
│   └── database.py
├── models/                 # Database models
│   ├── user.py
│   └── item.py
├── schemas/                # Pydantic schemas
│   ├── user.py
│   └── item.py
├── services/               # Business logic
│   ├── user_service.py
│   └── auth_service.py
├── repositories/           # Data access
│   ├── user_repository.py
│   └── item_repository.py
└── main.py                 # Application entry
2. Dependency Injection

FastAPI's built-in DI system using Depends:

  • Database session management

  • Authentication/authorization

  • Shared business logic

  • Configuration injection

3. Async Patterns

Proper async/await usage:

  • Async route handlers

  • Async database operations

  • Async background tasks

  • Async middleware

4. Dependencies

The packages the examples import:

# requirements.txt
fastapi
uvicorn[standard]
pydantic-settings
sqlalchemy[asyncio]>=2.0  # DeclarativeBase; [asyncio] installs greenlet for the async engine
asyncpg                   # PostgreSQL driver: postgresql+asyncpg://...
PyJWT
pwdlib[argon2]
python-multipart          # only for a login route that uses OAuth2PasswordRequestForm

# requirements-dev.txt
pytest
pytest-asyncio
httpx
aiosqlite                 # test database: sqlite+aiosqlite:///:memory:

Detailed worked examples and patterns

Detailed sections (starting with ## Implementation Patterns) live in references/details.md. Read that file when the navigation summary above is insufficient.

Testing

# tests/conftest.py
import pytest_asyncio
from httpx import ASGITransport, AsyncClient
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import create_async_engine, AsyncSession
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker

from app.main import app
from app.core.database import get_db, Base

TEST_DATABASE_URL = "sqlite+aiosqlite:///:memory:"

# Async fixtures need pytest_asyncio.fixture in pytest-asyncio's default strict mode
@pytest_asyncio.fixture
async def db_session():
    engine = create_async_engine(TEST_DATABASE_URL, echo=True)
    async with engine.begin() as conn:
        await conn.run_sync(Base.metadata.create_all)

    AsyncSessionLocal = sessionmaker(
        engine, class_=AsyncSession, expire_on_commit=False
    )

    async with AsyncSessionLocal() as session:
        yield session
    await engine.dispose()

@pytest_asyncio.fixture
async def client(db_session):
    async def override_get_db():
        yield db_session

    app.dependency_overrides[get_db] = override_get_db

    # httpx 0.28 removed AsyncClient(app=...); use an ASGI transport
    transport = ASGITransport(app=app)
    async with AsyncClient(transport=transport, base_url="http://test") as client:
        yield client
    app.dependency_overrides.clear()

# tests/test_users.py
import pytest

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_create_user(client):
    response = await client.post(
        "/api/v1/users/",
        json={
            "email": "[email protected]",
            "password": "testpass123",
            "name": "Test User"
        }
    )
    assert response.status_code == 201
    data = response.json()
    assert data["email"] == "[email protected]"
    assert "id" in data

Files

references/details.md

fastapi-templates — detailed worked examples

Implementation Patterns

Pattern 1: Complete FastAPI Application
# main.py
from fastapi import FastAPI, Depends
from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
from app.core.config import get_settings
from app.core.database import engine

settings = get_settings()

@asynccontextmanager
async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
    """Application lifespan events."""
    # Startup: the engine connects lazily on first use
    yield
    # Shutdown: close pooled connections
    await engine.dispose()

app = FastAPI(
    title="API Template",
    version="1.0.0",
    lifespan=lifespan
)

# CORS middleware
app.add_middleware(
    CORSMiddleware,
    # Never combine ["*"] with allow_credentials=True: Starlette then echoes
    # any request Origin, so every site can make credentialed requests.
    allow_origins=settings.CORS_ORIGINS,
    allow_credentials=True,
    allow_methods=["*"],
    allow_headers=["*"],
)

# Include routers
from app.api.v1.router import api_router
app.include_router(api_router, prefix="/api/v1")

# core/config.py
from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings, SettingsConfigDict
from functools import lru_cache

class Settings(BaseSettings):
    """Application settings."""
    model_config = SettingsConfigDict(env_file=".env")

    DATABASE_URL: str
    SECRET_KEY: str
    ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES: int = 30
    API_V1_STR: str = "/api/v1"
    # Explicit browser origins, e.g. CORS_ORIGINS='["https://app.example.com"]'
    CORS_ORIGINS: list[str] = []

@lru_cache()
def get_settings() -> Settings:
    return Settings()

# core/database.py
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import create_async_engine, AsyncSession
from sqlalchemy.orm import DeclarativeBase, sessionmaker
from app.core.config import get_settings

settings = get_settings()

engine = create_async_engine(
    settings.DATABASE_URL,
    echo=True,
    future=True
)

AsyncSessionLocal = sessionmaker(
    engine,
    class_=AsyncSession,
    expire_on_commit=False
)

class Base(DeclarativeBase):
    pass

async def get_db() -> AsyncSession:
    """Dependency for database session."""
    async with AsyncSessionLocal() as session:
        try:
            yield session
            await session.commit()
        except Exception:
            await session.rollback()
            raise
        finally:
            await session.close()
Pattern 2: CRUD Repository Pattern
# repositories/base_repository.py
from typing import Generic, TypeVar, Type, Optional, List
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
from sqlalchemy import select
from pydantic import BaseModel

ModelType = TypeVar("ModelType")
CreateSchemaType = TypeVar("CreateSchemaType", bound=BaseModel)
UpdateSchemaType = TypeVar("UpdateSchemaType", bound=BaseModel)

class BaseRepository(Generic[ModelType, CreateSchemaType, UpdateSchemaType]):
    """Base repository for CRUD operations."""

    def __init__(self, model: Type[ModelType]):
        self.model = model

    async def get(self, db: AsyncSession, id: int) -> Optional[ModelType]:
        """Get by ID."""
        result = await db.execute(
            select(self.model).where(self.model.id == id)
        )
        return result.scalars().first()

    async def get_multi(
        self,
        db: AsyncSession,
        skip: int = 0,
        limit: int = 100
    ) -> List[ModelType]:
        """Get multiple records."""
        result = await db.execute(
            select(self.model).offset(skip).limit(limit)
        )
        return result.scalars().all()

    async def create(
        self,
        db: AsyncSession,
        obj_in: CreateSchemaType | dict
    ) -> ModelType:
        """Create new record."""
        data = obj_in if isinstance(obj_in, dict) else obj_in.model_dump()
        db_obj = self.model(**data)
        db.add(db_obj)
        await db.flush()
        await db.refresh(db_obj)
        return db_obj

    async def update(
        self,
        db: AsyncSession,
        db_obj: ModelType,
        obj_in: UpdateSchemaType | dict
    ) -> ModelType:
        """Update record."""
        update_data = (
            obj_in if isinstance(obj_in, dict) else obj_in.model_dump(exclude_unset=True)
        )
        for field, value in update_data.items():
            setattr(db_obj, field, value)
        await db.flush()
        await db.refresh(db_obj)
        return db_obj

    async def delete(self, db: AsyncSession, id: int) -> bool:
        """Delete record."""
        obj = await self.get(db, id)
        if obj:
            await db.delete(obj)
            return True
        return False

# repositories/user_repository.py
from typing import Optional
from sqlalchemy import select
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
from app.repositories.base_repository import BaseRepository
from app.models.user import User
from app.schemas.user import UserCreate, UserUpdate

class UserRepository(BaseRepository[User, UserCreate, UserUpdate]):
    """User-specific repository."""

    async def get_by_email(self, db: AsyncSession, email: str) -> Optional[User]:
        """Get user by email."""
        result = await db.execute(
            select(User).where(User.email == email)
        )
        return result.scalars().first()

    async def is_active(self, db: AsyncSession, user_id: int) -> bool:
        """Check if user is active."""
        user = await self.get(db, user_id)
        return user.is_active if user else False

user_repository = UserRepository(User)
Pattern 3: Service Layer
# services/user_service.py
from typing import Optional
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
from app.repositories.user_repository import user_repository
from app.schemas.user import UserCreate, UserUpdate, User
from app.core.security import get_password_hash, verify_password

class EmailAlreadyRegisteredError(Exception):
    """Email is taken. Carries no user data, so the API can report it."""

class UserService:
    """Business logic for users."""

    def __init__(self):
        self.repository = user_repository

    async def create_user(
        self,
        db: AsyncSession,
        user_in: UserCreate
    ) -> User:
        """Create new user with hashed password."""
        # Check if email exists
        existing = await self.repository.get_by_email(db, user_in.email)
        if existing:
            raise EmailAlreadyRegisteredError()

        # Hash password. Pass a dict: rebuilding UserCreate would require
        # `password` again and would drop the unknown `hashed_password` field.
        user_data = user_in.model_dump(exclude={"password"})
        user_data["hashed_password"] = get_password_hash(user_in.password)

        # Create user
        user = await self.repository.create(db, user_data)
        return user

    async def authenticate(
        self,
        db: AsyncSession,
        email: str,
        password: str
    ) -> Optional[User]:
        """Authenticate user."""
        user = await self.repository.get_by_email(db, email)
        if not user:
            return None
        if not verify_password(password, user.hashed_password):
            return None
        return user

    async def update_user(
        self,
        db: AsyncSession,
        user_id: int,
        user_in: UserUpdate
    ) -> Optional[User]:
        """Update user."""
        user = await self.repository.get(db, user_id)
        if not user:
            return None

        update_data = user_in.model_dump(exclude_unset=True)
        password = update_data.pop("password", None)
        if password:
            update_data["hashed_password"] = get_password_hash(password)

        return await self.repository.update(db, user, update_data)

user_service = UserService()
Pattern 4: API Endpoints with Dependencies
# api/v1/endpoints/users.py
from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, status
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
from typing import List

from app.core.database import get_db
from app.schemas.user import User, UserCreate, UserUpdate
from app.services.user_service import EmailAlreadyRegisteredError, user_service
from app.api.dependencies import get_current_user

router = APIRouter()

@router.post("/", response_model=User, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
async def create_user(
    user_in: UserCreate,
    db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db)
):
    """Create new user."""
    try:
        user = await user_service.create_user(db, user_in)
        return user
    except EmailAlreadyRegisteredError:
        # Fixed message, never str(e): exception text can carry request data or
        # the password hash (pydantic's ValidationError is a ValueError whose
        # message includes input values). Anything unexpected becomes a 500.
        raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="Email already registered")

@router.get("/me", response_model=User)
async def read_current_user(
    current_user: User = Depends(get_current_user)
):
    """Get current user."""
    return current_user

@router.get("/{user_id}", response_model=User)
async def read_user(
    user_id: int,
    db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
    current_user: User = Depends(get_current_user)
):
    """Get user by ID."""
    user = await user_service.repository.get(db, user_id)
    if not user:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
    return user

@router.patch("/{user_id}", response_model=User)
async def update_user(
    user_id: int,
    user_in: UserUpdate,
    db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
    current_user: User = Depends(get_current_user)
):
    """Update user."""
    if current_user.id != user_id:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail="Not authorized")

    user = await user_service.update_user(db, user_id, user_in)
    if not user:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
    return user

@router.delete("/{user_id}", status_code=status.HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT)
async def delete_user(
    user_id: int,
    db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
    current_user: User = Depends(get_current_user)
):
    """Delete user."""
    if current_user.id != user_id:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=403, detail="Not authorized")

    deleted = await user_service.repository.delete(db, user_id)
    if not deleted:
        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
Pattern 5: Authentication & Authorization
# core/security.py
# pip install pyjwt "pwdlib[argon2]"  (the libraries the FastAPI security docs use)
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from typing import Optional
import jwt
from pwdlib import PasswordHash
from app.core.config import get_settings

settings = get_settings()
password_hash = PasswordHash.recommended()  # Argon2

ALGORITHM = "HS256"

def create_access_token(data: dict, expires_delta: Optional[timedelta] = None):
    """Create JWT access token. Put a string in "sub", e.g. {"sub": str(user.id)}."""
    to_encode = data.copy()
    if expires_delta:
        expire = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + expires_delta
    else:
        expire = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + timedelta(minutes=15)
    to_encode.update({"exp": expire})
    encoded_jwt = jwt.encode(to_encode, settings.SECRET_KEY, algorithm=ALGORITHM)
    return encoded_jwt

def verify_password(plain_password: str, hashed_password: str) -> bool:
    """Verify password against hash."""
    return password_hash.verify(plain_password, hashed_password)

def get_password_hash(password: str) -> str:
    """Hash password."""
    return password_hash.hash(password)

# api/dependencies.py
from fastapi import Depends, HTTPException, status
from fastapi.security import OAuth2PasswordBearer
import jwt
from jwt.exceptions import InvalidTokenError
from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession

from app.core.database import get_db
from app.core.security import ALGORITHM
from app.core.config import get_settings
from app.repositories.user_repository import user_repository

settings = get_settings()
oauth2_scheme = OAuth2PasswordBearer(tokenUrl=f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/auth/login")

async def get_current_user(
    db: AsyncSession = Depends(get_db),
    token: str = Depends(oauth2_scheme)
):
    """Get current authenticated user."""
    credentials_exception = HTTPException(
        status_code=status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
        detail="Could not validate credentials",
        headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "Bearer"},
    )

    try:
        payload = jwt.decode(token, settings.SECRET_KEY, algorithms=[ALGORITHM])
        sub = payload.get("sub")  # PyJWT requires "sub" to be a string
        if sub is None:
            raise credentials_exception
        user_id = int(sub)
    except (InvalidTokenError, ValueError):
        raise credentials_exception

    user = await user_repository.get(db, user_id)
    if user is None:
        raise credentials_exception

    return user

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