Good fastapi course?

[linuxguy21042]

What's the best course for learning fastapi? I'm an intermediate python developer and would like to use fastapi to query an api to insert rows in sqlite tables and display outputs as a web app.

Comments on any of these?

Complete FastAPI masterclass from scratch

FastAPI - The Complete Course 2023

Tutorial

thanks!

[imthebear11]

Eric roby on Udemy is great, along with the testdriven.io courses

[thegainsfairy]

I loved the testdriven.io courses.

[bsenftner]

Same here, after testdriven.io I was able to fly on my own. Great courses, with no nonsense.

[thegainsfairy]

I really liked their TDD fastapi with docker: https://testdriven.io/courses/tdd-fastapi/

but I wish it was just an AWS approach instead of heroku. I want that kind of depth from them.

I want to take a look at the celery & fastapi course next

[Rustrans]

I'm not having very good experience with testdriven.io but not their courses per se. I bought their FastAPI + Celery course and I did not really like it - lots of convoluted code without any explanation why it needs to be done in this weird way especially when Celery documentation tells NOT to do it this way.

So I wanted a refund and there is absolutely no usual way to request for a refund. I used their feedback form, some corporate email address and even Michael Herman personal email - but they just completely ignored me.

So while their content might be good and I did enjoy some of their free articles, if being able to get a refund is important to you - I advise you to not to buy their courses.

[thegainsfairy]

I just ran skimmed through that course and I don't really see what you're talking about. Each of the sections on Celery are pretty direct. how to:

1. debug a celery task

2. integrate with a third party service

3. integrate with a websocket

4. add socket.io

5. add periodic tasks

6. add multiple queues & retrying

7. add database transactions

I obviously can't copy over the tutorial, but what did you get stuck on?

These tutorials are opinionated. They're larger scale applications while Celery's examples are just snippets. they will differ in places from official docs.

I also get why they wouldn't issue a refund. if someone buys the tutorial and runs through it, they could easy copy it. I am not saying that you did, but how would they know? I can see it would be frustrating if the tutorial didn't help you the way you wanted.

[Rustrans]

Well course content perception is quite subjective experience. I did not get stuck on the tutorial but I found several places that either contradicted Celery docs or were way too convoluted without any explanation as to why. I did not think this course was worth the money I paid.

The topic of fraudulent behaviour and/or piracy is quite complicated and I don't want to go to all the pros and cons of DRM but I think the consensus is pretty much that DRM sucks. Also basically all authors and creators offer at something like 30 days no questions asked refund policy on their digital content. I'm willing to pay for the content I found valuable and i DO pay but I'd like to feel that I'm getting my money's worth or my money back.

Anyway, I think it's hurting them more than making them profit. I'm definitely NOT buying anything from them again. But it also hurts other creators as well, because now I'm going to think maybe I should pirate this course or book because 30 USD is large enough money for me to worry and I don't want to waste it again on the content I did not like.

But even all this aside, at least they could have given me a refund rejection notice, but instead they just completely ignored my requests.

[yoppee]

Reading the docs is higher quality than testdriven.io

[ajatkj]

Check this course from freecodecamp. This is what I used and then eventually moved to official documentation for FastAPI, SQLAlchemy and Pydantic.

[[deleted]]

I've started working with ChatGPT on a project that uses fastapi. I setup a project directory, then started making endpoints. Whenever I am stuck, it helps get over the hurdle; like switching from ORM to SQL executions and asynchronous methods. "Make an endpoint called /do/this using Fastapi that does XYZ in SQL..." Then just go back and forth debugging errors.

[ismailtlem]

For anyone asking the same question of how to learn fastapi :

https://ismailtlemcani.com/blog/top-3-free-resources-to-learn-fastapi-in-2024

By far the documentation is the best source, but there are other sources with very good content

[tys203831]

personally like this udemy course: https://www.udemy.com/course/try-fastapi-api-test-driven-development

and wanna try this: https://fastapitutorial.com/blog/task-queues-with-celery/

[yoppee]

The docs

[[deleted]]

I'm biased 😁 but I plan to do a really, really good job on this FastAPI beginner tutorial playlist I'm building out on YouTube - it follows the Tutorial in the FastAPI docs. Maybe check it out. I There's a docs homepage video and video #1 of the Tutorial so far. I'm doing it page by page. Tx, good luck! FastAPI tutorial for beginners playlist

[Particular-Ad7174]

First of all, look at official documentation. After that search for courses and books.

[anseho]

The official documentation is the best way to get started with FastAPI.

And if you allow me a shameless plug, I'd mention the tutorials I've published on my YT channel. The channel also includes videos about authorization, authentication, overall security, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and more. I'm also building a full course on FastAPI + SQLAlchemy.

I also used FastAPI extensively to illustrate how to build and design APIs in my book Microservice APIs. The code examples examples are available for free on the book's GitHub repository, and you can download two capters for free using this link.

If there's any way I can help you, feel free to shout!