fastappkit 0.1.4

A toolkit for building FastAPI projects with apps - internal and external pluggable apps

fastappkit

A toolkit for building FastAPI projects with apps — internal and external pluggable apps

fastappkit brings Django-like app architecture to FastAPI, enabling modular development with both project-specific internal apps and reusable external pluggable apps.

What is fastappkit?

fastappkit is a toolkit for building FastAPI projects with a modular app architecture. It enables:

• Internal apps — project-specific feature modules (like Django apps)
• External apps — reusable, pluggable packages (like WordPress plugins)
• Unified migrations — coordinated database schema management
• Automatic router mounting — seamless integration of app routes
• App validation and isolation — ensure apps don't conflict with each other

✨ Key Features

• ✅ Clean project structure with automatic app discovery
• ✅ Shared migrations for internal apps, isolated migrations for external apps
• ✅ Automatic router mounting with configurable prefixes
• ✅ Fail-fast validation and error handling
• ✅ Support for both monorepo and multi-repo workflows
• ✅ Simple CLI for project and app management

📦 Installation

Install fastappkit using pip or poetry:

pip install fastappkit

or

poetry add fastappkit

🏃 Quick Start

1. Create a new project

fastappkit core new myproject
cd myproject

This creates a complete FastAPI project structure with:

• Core application setup
• Database configuration
• Migration system
• App directory structure

2. Create an internal app

fastappkit app new blog

This creates a new internal app in apps/blog/ with models, router, and registers it in fastappkit.toml.

3. Run migrations

fastappkit migrate all

This runs all migrations in the correct order: core → internal apps → external apps.

4. Start the development server

fastappkit core dev

Your FastAPI application is now running at http://127.0.0.1:8000!

📚 Documentation

Comprehensive documentation is available at Read the Docs (coming soon).

For now, see docs/Usage.md for detailed usage instructions.

🎯 Core Concepts

Internal Apps

Internal apps are project-specific modules that live in your project's apps/ directory. They share the same migration system and database connection.

fastappkit app new blog
# Creates apps/blog/ with models, router, etc.

External Apps

External apps are reusable packages that can be installed via pip and plugged into any fastappkit project.

fastappkit app new payments --as-package
# Creates a standalone package structure

Migrations

fastappkit provides unified migration management:

• Core migrations: Project-level schema changes
• Internal app migrations: Shared migration directory for all internal apps
• External app migrations: Isolated migrations per external app

# Create migrations for an internal app
fastappkit migrate app blog makemigrations -m "Add post model"

# Run all migrations
fastappkit migrate all

# Preview SQL before applying
fastappkit migrate preview

🛠️ CLI Commands

Project Management

fastappkit core new <name>          # Create a new project
fastappkit core dev                  # Run development server

App Management

fastappkit app new <name>            # Create an internal app
fastappkit app new <name> --as-package  # Create an external app
fastappkit app list                  # List all apps
fastappkit app validate <name>       # Validate an app

Migration Management

fastappkit migrate core -m "message"           # Create core migration
fastappkit migrate app <name> makemigrations   # Create app migration
fastappkit migrate app <name> upgrade         # Upgrade app migrations
fastappkit migrate app <name> downgrade -r <rev>  # Downgrade app migrations
fastappkit migrate all                        # Run all migrations
fastappkit migrate preview                    # Preview SQL for all migrations

📖 Example Project Structure

myproject/
├── core/
│   ├── config.py          # Settings (loads from .env)
│   ├── app.py             # create_app() factory
│   └── db/
│       └── migrations/    # Core migrations
├── apps/                   # Internal apps directory
│   └── blog/
│       ├── models.py
│       └── router.py
├── fastappkit.toml        # Project configuration
├── .env                   # Environment variables
└── main.py                # Entry point

🔧 Configuration

fastappkit uses fastappkit.toml for project configuration:

[tool.fastappkit]
apps = [
    "apps.blog",
    "apps.users",
    "external_package_name"
]

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

📄 License

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

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Inspired by Django's app system
• Built with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and Typer

📞 Support

• 📖 Documentation
• 🐛 Issue Tracker
• 💬 Discussions

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