fastapi-smith 0.2.2

Interactive CLI to scaffold FastAPI projects with database, auth, admin, and more

fastapi-smith

Interactive CLI to scaffold production-ready FastAPI projects with database, authentication, admin panel, and more.

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Features

• Interactive prompts - Answer questions to customize your project
• Production-ready - Best practices baked in from the start
• Highly configurable - Choose your database, ORM, auth, and more
• Modern tooling - Ruff, mypy, pre-commit, GitHub Actions
• Docker support - Multi-stage Dockerfile and docker-compose included

Installation

# Using uvx (recommended - no install needed)
uvx fastapi-smith

# Or install globally with uv
uv tool install fastapi-smith

# Or with pip
pip install fastapi-smith

Quick Start

Simply run:

fastapi-smith

Follow the interactive prompts to configure your project. A new directory will be created with your complete FastAPI application.

cd my-project
uv sync
uv run uvicorn app.main:app --reload

Configuration Options

Project Basics

• Project name, description, author
• Python version (3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13)

Database & ORM

Database	Drivers	ORMs
PostgreSQL	psycopg3 (async)	SQLAlchemy 2.0, SQLModel
MySQL	asyncmy	SQLAlchemy 2.0, SQLModel
SQLite	aiosqlite	SQLAlchemy 2.0, SQLModel
-	-	Tortoise-ORM (any DB)

Migrations: Alembic (SQLAlchemy/SQLModel) or Aerich (Tortoise-ORM)

Authentication

• JWT - JSON Web Tokens with refresh tokens
• OAuth2 - Password flow with bearer tokens
• Session - Server-side sessions with cookies
• None - No authentication

Admin Panel

• SQLAdmin - Beautiful admin interface for SQLAlchemy/SQLModel

Caching

• Redis - Distributed caching
• Memcached - High-performance caching
• In-memory - Simple local caching

Message Queue & Background Tasks

Broker	Task Queues
RabbitMQ	Celery, Taskiq
Redis	Celery, ARQ, Taskiq
-	Built-in BackgroundTasks

Logging & Monitoring

• Loguru - Modern logging with rich formatting
• structlog - Structured logging for production
• Standard - Python's built-in logging
• Sentry - Error tracking integration
• Health checks - Kubernetes-ready endpoints

Development Tools

Category	Options
Package Manager	uv, pip
Linting	Ruff, Black + isort
Type Checking	mypy (strict/standard), Pyrefly
Testing	Pytest with async support
Pre-commit	Automated code quality hooks

Deployment

• Docker - Multi-stage build with non-root user
• docker-compose - Full stack with DB, Redis, etc.
• GitHub Actions - CI/CD workflows

AWS Integration

• S3 - Object storage with boto3
• SES - Email service
• ECR - Container registry
• ECS - Container orchestration deployment

Project Structure

my-fastapi-app/
├── app/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── main.py              # FastAPI application
│   ├── config.py            # Settings with pydantic-settings
│   ├── database.py          # Database connection & session
│   ├── models/              # SQLAlchemy/SQLModel models
│   ├── schemas/             # Pydantic schemas
│   ├── routes/              # API route handlers
│   ├── services/            # Business logic
│   ├── core/                # Security, logging, caching
│   └── admin/               # SQLAdmin views
├── migrations/              # Alembic migrations
├── tests/                   # Pytest tests
├── .github/workflows/       # CI/CD pipelines
├── .env.example             # Environment template
├── pyproject.toml           # Dependencies & tool config
├── Dockerfile               # Multi-stage build
├── docker-compose.yml       # Local development stack
└── README.md                # Project documentation

Development

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/dhruvbhavsar0612/fastsql-project-setup.git
cd fastsql-project-setup

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run locally
uv run fastapi-smith

# Run tests
uv run pytest

# Type checking
uv run mypy src

# Linting
uv run ruff check src

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Contributing Guide for details on our code of conduct and the process for submitting pull requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Links

• Documentation
• GitHub Repository
• PyPI Package
• Issue Tracker
• Changelog