FastAPI project with async SQLAlchemy, Alembic and Docker

This is the completed version of the project on my blog post here. The project demonstrates how to create a FastAPI project with async SQLAlchemy, Alembic, PostgreSQL and Docker.

Start the server without Docker

1. Create a virtual environment and activate it:

   $ virtualenv venv --python python3.11
   $ source venv/bin/activate

2. Install the dependencies:

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Start the PostgreSQL database:

   $ docker compose up -d postgres

4. Run the migrations:

   $ alembic upgrade head

5. Start the FastAPI server:

   $ python3 -m src.main

   You can access the swagger docs at http://localhost:8000/docs.

Start the server with Docker

Simply just run $ docker compose up -d to start the project with Docker. You can follow the logs using $ docker compose logs -f backend command. You can stop the project with $ docker compose down.

You can access the swagger docs at http://localhost:8000/docs.