25 Fastapi Project

title: Building a Complete REST API with FastAPI — Project weight: 35 date: 2026-06-28 lastmod: 2026-06-28 description: Build a production-ready FastAPI REST API combining Pydantic models, SQLAlchemy, async database, JWT auth, Redis caching, WebSocket, and Docker deployment. tags: [api-development, fastapi]

This capstone FastAPI project builds a production-ready e-commerce API with SQLAlchemy async database, JWT authentication, Redis caching, WebSocket notifications, background tasks, file upload, comprehensive testing, and Docker deployment.

fastapi-ecommerce/ ├── app/ │ ├── main.py │ ├── config.py │ ├── database.py │ ├── dependencies.py │ ├── models/ # SQLAlchemy models (User, Product, Order, CartItem) │ ├── schemas/ # Pydantic schemas (request/response) │ ├── routes/ # APIRouters (auth, users, products, orders, cart) │ ├── services/ # Business logic │ ├── middleware/ # Custom middleware │ └── utils/ # Security, caching helpers ├── tests/ ├── Dockerfile ├── docker-compose.yml ├── requirements.txt └── .env

Features: JWT authentication with refresh tokens, CRUD for products with image upload, shopping cart with Redis caching, order processing with background tasks, WebSocket for real-time order status, role-based authorization (admin/customer), rate limiting, async PostgreSQL with SQLAlchemy 2.0, Alembic migrations, Pytest with TestClient, Docker with uvicorn + Gunicorn, and Swagger documentation.

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