fastapi-django-setup
This small repo is my very own test on getting my first framework love (Django) together with my current framework love (FastAPI). The two argue a lot about things like async and testing and seems to not liking my idea...but we will get there.
This is possibly far from being a solution for everyone, but still may contain things you can just copy for your own marriage plans. I try to avoid any bad "social" patterns and keep this all as clean as possible. So far no lawyer was necessary, so thats a good thing.
Have fun with it. 👍🙃
Some more serious details and notes
- The basic goal is to use Django like normal and have FastAPI provide the API URLs using the Django ORM. Also I would like to use the Django admin again.
- Using Django as a mount in FastAPI will loose the static files handling Django normally
enabled on your local dev server. See
main.pyon how to solve this. - I created some code to automatically convert Django models to pydantic models, see
utils/models/django.pyfor details. This is not finished yet, but may be a good starting point for you. - Testing the FastAPI API URLs is somewhat special. Django normally uses transactions to
reset the DB state after each test. This is not working correctly when not using the
Django
TestCaseclass - which we don't want to and cannot do as we are in FastAPI here. My current solution is to set the tests to use thetransactional_dbfixture ofpytest-django, this will recreate the DB for each test. Slower, but working. - Some things in the repo are just my personal best practices (like using
dirty-equalsin the tests). Make your own choices. 😉
Current state
Currently everything seems to be working somehow. 🥳