--- title: FastAPI Best Practices: A Condensed Guide with Examples description: FastAPI is a high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python. It is easy to learn and use, enforces type safety, supports asynchronous... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fastapi-best-practices-a-condensed-guide-with-examples-ipkfwaj6d twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: FastAPI Best Practices: A Condensed Guide with Examples | daily.dev og:description: FastAPI is a high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python. It is easy to learn and use, enforces type safety, supports asynchronous... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fastapi-best-practices-a-condensed-guide-with-examples-ipkfwaj6d og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/IPKFwaJ6d.png og:image:alt: FastAPI Best Practices: A Condensed Guide with Examples og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FastAPI Best Practices: A Condensed Guide with Examples **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · [@nunobispo](https://daily.dev/nunobispo) · 1 min read · 34 upvotes · 10 comments ## Summary FastAPI is a high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python. It is easy to learn and use, enforces type safety, supports asynchronous programming, and automatically generates API documentation. Following best practices when working with FastAPI is crucial for maintainability, scalability, security, performance, and community standards. It is recommended to set up a virtual environment and structure your project properly. Data validation, handling HTTP requests, and implementing exception handling, middleware, and CORS are important aspects of working with FastAPI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@nunobispo** · 3 upvotes > Hello everyone, hope you like my post. > > I wrote this post because I was learning more about Pydantic and even wrote an article about it. > > I have been using FastAPI in side projects for a while, but I never really thought about how a project should be structured and what principles it should have/follow. > > Feedback is appreciated. > > Available to answer any questions. **@ilyn** · 2 upvotes > Great post ! It would be interesting to create a github repository so then you can clone it and set up your API quickly. **@calycher** · 0 upvotes > Great article 👏 thanks for sharing **@hantian\_pang** · 0 upvotes > good tutorial, thanks for sharing --- Tags: [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#fastapi](https://daily.dev/tags/fastapi) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/fastapi-best-practices-a-condensed-guide-with-examples-ipkfwaj6d) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"FastAPI Best Practices: A Condensed Guide with Examples","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fastapi-best-practices-a-condensed-guide-with-examples-ipkfwaj6d","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/fastapi-best-practices-a-condensed-guide-with-examples-ipkfwaj6d"},"datePublished":"2024-05-03T16:31:57.549Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z","description":"FastAPI is a high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python. 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It would be interesting to create a github repository so then you can clone it and set up your API quickly.","datePublished":"2024-05-09T00:32:37.061Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/IPKFwaJ6d#c-QH4lQNmPB","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Yassin","url":"https://daily.dev/ilyn","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/55637659?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great article 👏 thanks for sharing","datePublished":"2024-05-21T18:32:42.248Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/IPKFwaJ6d#c-bbcrxWvhL","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Caly cher","url":"https://daily.dev/calycher","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--O0TOmw4y--/f_auto/v1715772965/public/noProfile"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"good tutorial, thanks for sharing","datePublished":"2024-05-09T06:02:24.187Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/IPKFwaJ6d#c-2k6beOQlo","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"hantian pang","url":"https://daily.dev/hantian_pang","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6350479?v=4"}}]} ```