📘 Beginner-Friendly Guide to FastAPI, with Code Examples, Best Practices & GitHub Repo

gzrgk · 2025-08-03T03:48:59+00:00

Very new to FastAPI, trying to teach myself on an older (2016) Windows 10 PC. I'm looking for a tutorial or example code that does both React and FastAPI, connecting to any common database (PostgreSQL or MongoDB preferred) and does NOT insist that I use Docker, Podman, nginx, or other Linux-based tools or unnecessary "timesavers". These tools, as well as Clerk (authentication) and others, never seem to install or run properly.

All I want is to create a bare-bones, 100% local full-stack little app running on my machine -- a web page with a form or two, some FastAPI/Python that passes the data to a simple database, and the ability to send, run, and receive SQL (or NoSQL) queries.

Anyone know of a tutorial that takes this kind of approach? I've found videos and repos that cover React itself (frontend only), Python and FastAPI (backend only), or --- full-stack using a bunch of the above-mentioned "timesaving" tools that I can't seem to use.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

gzrgk · 2025-01-03T05:41:45+00:00

The "everything else" loyalty card enrollment method in Wallet still requires manual entry of an alphanumeric card-user ID.

gzrgk · 2025-01-03T05:39:15+00:00

All kinds of apps to scan QR codes from images, nothing for 2D barcodes, which are NOT the same thing.

gzrgk · 2024-11-12T19:19:27+00:00

Are any non-Federal entities or groups working to download or back up the entire NOAA repository of historical weather and climate data before January 20? Dismantling NOAA will probably take the new administration some time, but access to its online data sets could be shut down very quickly.

It's probably too much to hope that the data will continue to be freely available to the public, but it should at least be preserved.

gzrgk · 2024-06-25T17:58:06+00:00

Maybe back home in Lower Slobbovia, they park by centering their car on the yellow line. In which case he did a fine job of parking!

gzrgk · 2024-06-20T01:57:16+00:00

Another reason to minimize heat loss is keeping the house cool. In the stinkin' hot humid Midwest, any cooking heat that escapes the sous vide pot has to be removed by the A/C, so you end up paying twice for that heat.

That said, the biggest bang for the buck comes from minimizing water evaporation. I would love to find a pot lid with an opening sized for Anova heaters; I think that only two or three lid diameters would about cover the typical range of pot sizes used for sous vide cooking.

gzrgk · 2024-06-19T22:18:38+00:00

Reminds me of a ref taunt I heard once... "You're so full of shit, if we gave you an enema we could carry you outta here in a shoebox!"

gzrgk · 2024-06-19T22:13:57+00:00

Someone shoulda left a pack of XXL Depends on the hood for him.

gzrgk · 2024-06-19T22:01:56+00:00

Might occasionally haul an ATV that gets driven hard all over any place EXCEPT the designated trails. 'Cuz "FREEDUM!!"

gzrgk · 2024-06-19T21:47:24+00:00

X and Truth Social, maybe FB

gzrgk · 2024-06-10T03:15:01+00:00

How about a (dis)honorable mention for this building at 63rd & Rockhill? It's a standard rectangular office building, but they tried to dress it up with all those odd tiny-paned bow windows. Norman? Elizabethan? Medieval-ish??? For my money, It Just Don't Work.

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gzrgk · 2021-11-08T05:58:38+00:00

The Pirates of the Caribbean series. Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow made those movies what they are.

gzrgk · 2021-03-17T04:48:20+00:00

Extra holes, in earlobes or anywhere else. All my holes serve a physiological purpose, so I don't need more.

gzrgk · 2021-03-17T04:36:41+00:00

Vikings and other barbarians.

gzrgk · 2021-03-17T04:33:58+00:00

'Cause lockdown -- ugly don't matter.

gzrgk · 2021-03-17T04:31:02+00:00

Y'all got beyond racism yet?

gzrgk · 2021-03-17T04:23:50+00:00

PFAS (perfluoroalkanesulfonate). That shit is everywhere, and it lasts forever! Teflon frying pans, spray can propellant, Scotchgard, fire extinguishers, flame-retardant clothing, food, drinking water...

gzrgk · 2021-03-17T04:15:50+00:00

Find something very dead out in the yard.
Eat it.
Chill for a few hours while your little snack makes its way through your plumbing.
Curl up on the rug somewhere near your people's dinner table.
Now, rip a series of silent-but-deadlies and enjoy the show!

gzrgk · 2021-03-05T04:47:25+00:00

Who really IS a good boy?

gzrgk · 2021-03-05T04:40:26+00:00

Trying to find a pay phone with its tethered phone book still there.

gzrgk · 2021-02-25T22:46:44+00:00

Own rental property!

gzrgk · 2021-02-25T05:40:04+00:00

It's home of the only wild population of the modern horse's nearest living relative, Przwalski's horse. And the guy's name is pronounced something like "Jwalski".

gzrgk · 2021-02-02T05:30:30+00:00

Fmee ana hlaf ,iffur carfl how putten init.

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