fastapi-scaffold

name	fastapi-scaffold
description	Generate production-ready FastAPI REST API with async and authentication
shortcut	fas
category	backend
difficulty	intermediate
estimated_time	5-10 minutes

FastAPI Scaffold

Generates a complete FastAPI REST API boilerplate with async support, authentication, database integration, and testing setup.

What This Command Does

Generated Project:

• FastAPI with Python 3.10+
• Async/await throughout
• JWT authentication
• Database integration (SQLAlchemy async)
• Pydantic models & validation
• Automatic OpenAPI docs
• Testing setup (Pytest + httpx)
• Docker configuration
• Example CRUD endpoints

Output: Complete API project ready for development

Time: 5-10 minutes

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Usage

# Generate full FastAPI API
/fastapi-scaffold "Task Management API"

# Shortcut
/fas "E-commerce API"

# With specific database
/fas "Blog API" --database postgresql

# With authentication type
/fas "Social API" --auth jwt --database postgresql

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Example Output

Input:

/fas "Task Management API" --database postgresql

Generated Project Structure:

task-api/
├── app/
│   ├── api/
│   │   ├── deps.py           # Dependencies
│   │   └── v1/
│   │       ├── __init__.py
│   │       ├── auth.py       # Auth endpoints
│   │       └── tasks.py      # Task endpoints
│   ├── core/
│   │   ├── config.py         # Settings
│   │   ├── security.py       # JWT, password hashing
│   │   └── database.py       # Database connection
│   ├── models/               # SQLAlchemy models
│   │   ├── user.py
│   │   └── task.py
│   ├── schemas/              # Pydantic schemas
│   │   ├── user.py
│   │   └── task.py
│   ├── services/             # Business logic
│   │   ├── auth.py
│   │   └── task.py
│   ├── db/
│   │   └── init_db.py        # Database initialization
│   ├── main.py               # FastAPI app
│   └── __init__.py
├── tests/
│   ├── conftest.py
│   ├── test_auth.py
│   └── test_tasks.py
├── alembic/                  # Database migrations
│   ├── versions/
│   └── env.py
├── .env.example
├── .gitignore
├── requirements.txt
├── pyproject.toml
├── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
└── README.md

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Generated Files

1. app/main.py (Application Entry)

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
from fastapi.middleware.trustedhost import TrustedHostMiddleware

from app.api.v1 import auth, tasks
from app.core.config import settings
from app.core.database import engine
from app.models import Base

# Create database tables
Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)

app = FastAPI(
    title=settings.PROJECT_NAME,
    version="1.0.0",
    openapi_url=f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/openapi.json",
    docs_url=f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/docs",
)

# CORS middleware
app.add_middleware(
    CORSMiddleware,
    allow_origins=settings.ALLOWED_ORIGINS,
    allow_credentials=True,
    allow_methods=["*"],
    allow_headers=["*"],
)

# Security middleware
app.add_middleware(
    TrustedHostMiddleware,
    allowed_hosts=settings.ALLOWED_HOSTS
)

@app.get("/health")
async def health_check():
    return {
        "status": "ok",
        "version": "1.0.0"
    }

# Include routers
app.include_router(auth.router, prefix=f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/auth", tags=["auth"])
app.include_router(tasks.router, prefix=f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/tasks", tags=["tasks"])

 __name__ == :
     uvicorn
    uvicorn.run(app, host=, port=)

2. app/core/config.py (Settings)

from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings
from typing import List

class Settings(BaseSettings):
    PROJECT_NAME: str = "Task API"
    API_V1_STR: str = "/api/v1"

    # Database
    DATABASE_URL: str

    # Security
    SECRET_KEY: str
    ALGORITHM: str = "HS256"
    ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES: int = 60 * 24 * 7  # 7 days

    # CORS
    ALLOWED_ORIGINS: List[str] = ["http://localhost:3000"]
    ALLOWED_HOSTS: List[str] = ["*"]

    class Config:
        env_file = ".env"
        case_sensitive = True

settings = Settings()

3. app/core/security.py (Authentication)

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from typing import Optional
from jose import jwt, JWTError
from passlib.context import CryptContext
from fastapi import Depends, HTTPException, status
from fastapi.security import OAuth2PasswordBearer

from app.core.config import settings

pwd_context = CryptContext(schemes=["bcrypt"], deprecated="auto")
oauth2_scheme = OAuth2PasswordBearer(tokenUrl=f"{settings.API_V1_STR}/auth/login")

def verify_password(plain_password: str, hashed_password: str) -> bool:
    return pwd_context.verify(plain_password, hashed_password)

def get_password_hash(password: str) -> str:
    return pwd_context.hash(password)

def create_access_token(data: dict, expires_delta: Optional[timedelta] = None) -> str:
    to_encode = data.copy()

    if expires_delta:
        expire = datetime.utcnow() + expires_delta
    else:
        expire = datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(
            minutes=settings.ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES
        )

    to_encode.update({"exp": expire})
    encoded_jwt = jwt.encode(
        to_encode,
        settings.SECRET_KEY,
        algorithm=settings.ALGORITHM
    )
     encoded_jwt

 () -> :
    :
        payload = jwt.decode(
            token,
            settings.SECRET_KEY,
            algorithms=[settings.ALGORITHM]
        )
         payload
     JWTError:
         HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
            detail=,
            headers={: },
        )

4. app/core/database.py (Database Setup)

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from app.core.config import settings

engine = create_engine(
    settings.DATABASE_URL,
    pool_pre_ping=True,
    echo=False
)

SessionLocal = sessionmaker(
    autocommit=False,
    autoflush=False,
    bind=engine
)

Base = declarative_base()

def get_db():
    db = SessionLocal()
    try:
        yield db
    finally:
        db.close()

5. app/models/user.py (User Model)

from sqlalchemy import Column, String, DateTime
from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
from datetime import datetime
import uuid

from app.core.database import Base

class User(Base):
    __tablename__ = "users"

    id = Column(String, primary_key=True, default=lambda: str(uuid.uuid4()))
    email = Column(String, unique=True, index=True, nullable=False)
    hashed_password = Column(String, nullable=False)
    name = Column(String, nullable=False)
    created_at = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.utcnow)
    updated_at = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.utcnow, onupdate=datetime.utcnow)

    # Relationships
    tasks = relationship("Task", back_populates="owner", cascade="all, delete-orphan")

6. app/models/task.py (Task Model)

from sqlalchemy import Column, String, Boolean, DateTime, ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
from datetime import datetime
import uuid

from app.core.database import Base

class Task(Base):
    __tablename__ = "tasks"

    id = Column(String, primary_key=True, default=lambda: str(uuid.uuid4()))
    title = Column(String, nullable=False)
    description = Column(String, nullable=True)
    completed = Column(Boolean, default=False)
    user_id = Column(String, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
    created_at = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.utcnow)
    updated_at = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.utcnow, onupdate=datetime.utcnow)

    # Relationships
    owner = relationship("User", back_populates="tasks")

7. app/schemas/user.py (Pydantic Schemas)

from pydantic import BaseModel, EmailStr
from datetime import datetime
from typing import Optional

class UserBase(BaseModel):
    email: EmailStr
    name: str

class UserCreate(UserBase):
    password: str

class UserUpdate(BaseModel):
    name: Optional[str] = None
    email: Optional[EmailStr] = None

class UserInDB(UserBase):
    id: str
    created_at: datetime
    updated_at: datetime

    class Config:
        from_attributes = True

class User(UserInDB):
    pass

class Token(BaseModel):
    access_token: str
    token_type: str

class TokenData(BaseModel):
    email: Optional[str] = None

8. app/schemas/task.py (Task Schemas)

from pydantic import BaseModel
from datetime import datetime
from typing import Optional

class TaskBase(BaseModel):
    title: str
    description: Optional[str] = None

class TaskCreate(TaskBase):
    pass

class TaskUpdate(BaseModel):
    title: Optional[str] = None
    description: Optional[str] = None
    completed: Optional[bool] = None

class TaskInDB(TaskBase):
    id: str
    completed: bool
    user_id: str
    created_at: datetime
    updated_at: datetime

    class Config:
        from_attributes = True

class Task(TaskInDB):
    pass

9. app/api/deps.py (Dependencies)

from typing import Generator
from fastapi import Depends, HTTPException, status
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session

from app.core.database import get_db
from app.core.security import oauth2_scheme, decode_access_token
from app.models.user import User

def get_current_user(
    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
    token: str = Depends(oauth2_scheme)
) -> User:
    payload = decode_access_token(token)
    email: str = payload.get("sub")

    if email is None:
        raise HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
            detail="Could not validate credentials"
        )

    user = db.query(User).filter(User.email == email).first()

    if user is None:
        raise HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_401_UNAUTHORIZED,
            detail="User not found"
        )

    return user

10. app/api/v1/tasks.py (Task Endpoints)

from typing import List
from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, status
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session

from app.api.deps import get_current_user
from app.core.database import get_db
from app.models.user import User
from app.models.task import Task as TaskModel
from app.schemas.task import Task, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate

router = APIRouter()

@router.get("/", response_model=List[Task])
async def list_tasks(
    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
    current_user: User = Depends(get_current_user),
    skip: int = 0,
    limit: int = 100
):
    tasks = db.query(TaskModel)\
        .filter(TaskModel.user_id == current_user.id)\
        .offset(skip)\
        .limit(limit)\
        .all()
    return tasks

@router.post("/", response_model=Task, status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
async def create_task(
    task_in: TaskCreate,
    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
    current_user: User = Depends(get_current_user)
):
    task = TaskModel(
        **task_in.dict(),
        user_id=current_user.
    )
    db.add(task)
    db.commit()
    db.refresh(task)
     task


  ():
    task = db.query(TaskModel)\
        .(TaskModel. == task_id, TaskModel.user_id == current_user.)\
        .first()

      task:
         HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND,
            detail=
        )

     task


  ():
    task = db.query(TaskModel)\
        .(TaskModel. == task_id, TaskModel.user_id == current_user.)\
        .first()

      task:
         HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND,
            detail=
        )

     field, value  task_in.(exclude_unset=).items():
        (task, field, value)

    db.commit()
    db.refresh(task)
     task


  ():
    task = db.query(TaskModel)\
        .(TaskModel. == task_id, TaskModel.user_id == current_user.)\
        .first()

      task:
         HTTPException(
            status_code=status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND,
            detail=
        )

    db.delete(task)
    db.commit()

11. tests/test_tasks.py (Pytest Tests)

import pytest
from httpx import AsyncClient
from app.main import app

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_create_task(client: AsyncClient, test_user_token):
    response = await client.post(
        "/api/v1/tasks/",
        json={
            "title": "Test Task",
            "description": "Test description"
        },
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {test_user_token}"}
    )

    assert response.status_code == 201
    data = response.json()
    assert data["title"] == "Test Task"
    assert "id" in data

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_list_tasks(client: AsyncClient, test_user_token):
    response = await client.get(
        "/api/v1/tasks/",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {test_user_token}"}
    )

    assert response.status_code == 200
    data = response.json()
    assert isinstance(data, list)

@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_create_task_unauthorized(client: AsyncClient):
    response =  client.post(
        ,
        json={: }
    )

     response.status_code == 

12. requirements.txt

fastapi==0.109.0
uvicorn[standard]==0.27.0
sqlalchemy==2.0.25
pydantic==2.5.3
pydantic-settings==2.1.0
python-jose[cryptography]==3.3.0
passlib[bcrypt]==1.7.4
python-multipart==0.0.6
alembic==1.13.1
psycopg2-binary==2.9.9

# Development
pytest==7.4.4
pytest-asyncio==0.23.3
httpx==0.26.0
black==23.12.1
isort==5.13.2
mypy==1.8.0

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Features

Performance:

• Async/await for high concurrency
• Background tasks support
• WebSocket support (optional)
• Automatic Pydantic validation

Documentation:

• Auto-generated OpenAPI (Swagger)
• ReDoc documentation
• Type hints throughout

Database:

• SQLAlchemy ORM with async support
• Alembic migrations
• Connection pooling

Security:

• JWT authentication
• Password hashing (bcrypt)
• CORS middleware
• Trusted host middleware

Testing:

• Pytest with async support
• Test fixtures
• Coverage reporting

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Getting Started

1. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Configure environment:

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your database URL and secrets

3. Run database migrations:

alembic upgrade head

4. Start development server:

uvicorn app.main:app --reload

5. View API docs:

• Swagger UI: http://localhost:8000/api/v1/docs
• ReDoc: http://localhost:8000/api/v1/redoc

6. Run tests:

pytest

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