FastAPI Foundations: Starlette & Uvicorn

Pydantic v2 Requirement

Installing fastapi[standard]

ASGI and Uvicorn

Minimal Hello World App

Default JSON Serialization

FastAPI's Creator and Home

Minimal Install

What FastAPI Is

Automatic Interactive Docs

Running with the fastapi CLI

Python Version and Type Hints

Strict Content-Type Checking

Key Features and Benefits

First-Party Deployment

Foundations: Starlette and Pydantic

Versioning Status

Installing From the Repo

Checking the FastAPI Version

What FastAPI Actually Is

Deploying to FastAPI Cloud

Installing FastAPI With uv

Declaring Python Compatibility

Minimal FastAPI Install

Running With the FastAPI CLI

Missing Swagger Docs

Minimal FastAPI App

Uvicorn Reload Bug

Missing Type Hint

Strict Content-Type Rejection

Deprecated Response Class

Path Operation Decorator

Pydantic Model Foundation

First FastAPI App Bug

Minimal FastAPI App

Key Features and Benefits

Pydantic v2 Requirement

Python Version Requirement

Versioning Status

Path Operation Decorators

Running with the fastapi CLI

FastAPI Cloud Hosting

Project Ownership

What FastAPI Is

Installing FastAPI

Built on Starlette and Pydantic

Automatic Interactive Docs and OpenAPI

Native Pydantic JSON Serialization

Role of Python Type Hints

Strict Content-Type Checking for JSON

ASGI vs WSGI and Uvicorn

Auto API Docs in FastAPI

Type Hints Power FastAPI

Minimal FastAPI Hello World App

fastapi dev vs fastapi run

Installing FastAPI with uv

Pydantic v2 Powers FastAPI

FastAPI Python Version Requirement

FastAPI Cloud & fastapi deploy

FastAPI Is Still 0.x

Who Created FastAPI

Why FastAPI Wins

What FastAPI Is