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.
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
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Testing
# tests/conftest.py
import pytest
import asyncio
from httpx import 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:"
@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def event_loop():
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop_policy().new_event_loop()
yield loop
loop.close()
@pytest.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
@pytest.fixture
async def client(db_session):
async def override_get_db():
yield db_session
app.dependency_overrides[get_db] = override_get_db
async with AsyncClient(app=app, base_url="http://test") as client:
yield client
# 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