Cookiecutter for FastAPI Projects

I’ve recently done a lot of reading and experimenting with different FastAPI features, and decided to document that in a cookiecutter recipe for future references. The idea is to use this to bootstrap future FastAPI projects instead of copying bits and pieces from the documentation and from past projects.

Currently, this support examples for e.g.

• Taskfile as a modern alternative to Makefile to perform e.g. the common build tasks
• Test suite, including mocking DB connections following best practices
• A simple Dockerfile to run the FastAPI app in a container
• Various examples for middleware, including HTTPS redirection, CORS, and rate limiting
• Proper project setup for larger projects, following the official FastAPI documentation

I’m sure there’ll be a lot more topics to cover and to improve; some of the features that I’d like to add in the near future are

• A basic security setup
• GitHub Actions for basic CI/CD setup
• Proper logging setup
• Examples for websocket connections
• …and more

Links

• Github: https://github.com/DanielLenz/cookiecutter-fastapi-project
• Documentation: https://cookiecutter-fastapi-project.readthedocs.io