FastAPI and Django Combo

Project Details

• Position:Backend Engineer
• Duration:1 Days.
• Difficulty:High

Objective

This projects aims to combine FastAPI and Django to build a Production ready application capable of utilizing all of the features of both django and FastAPI. To demonstrate, I built a sample blog app, It can be adapted into any app.

Role Played

I built a production-ready API backend using Django and FastAPI that leverages the best of both worlds.

Tools & Technologies

Django, Django Rest Framework (DRF), FastAPI, Pydantic with custom validation, Django all-auth, JWT Authentication, CORS, Uvicorn and Gunicorn for Python web server

Challenge

Using FastAPI's async endpoints with Django's ORM. Setting up static and media files with AWS S3 was a serious pain considering the configuration needed to make it compatible with both frameworks.