1 Week Example Project

This projects goal is to showcase 1 weeks worth of effort (minus continuous recruiter calls and interviews) using a specific set of tech.

Project specifications

The project requester asked for me to focus on the following items:

• FastAPI
• pydantic
• asyncio
• mongoengine

Notes

Mongoengine

It appears mongoengine does not support asyncio. In order to fully leverage asyncio, it may be worth while to look into something like motorengine. But since mongoengine was requested to be used, we will stick with it.

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Setup

Install docker / docker-compose

You will first need to install docker and docker-compose.

Installation instructions for Docker Installation instructions for docker-compose

Running the app

Once docker and docker-compose are installed, you can start the application stack by running:

docker-compose up

If you want to want to keep the containers running in the background without taking over your terminal, you can add the -d flag to the above command like so.

docker-compose up -d

After that, you can watch the logs with docker-compose logs -f or turn off the containers by running docker-compose down.

[Optional] For Development: Setup python virtual environment

All testing and development on the application is done outside of the docker environment and contained inside of a virtual environment. This allows the app to maintain its exact library versions and not conflict with any other versions install on the OS.

# Feel free to replace the last venv here to name your virtual environment something else
python3 -m venv venv/

# The following line turns on the virtual environment. You will need to do this every time you open a new terminal to this project.
. venv/bin/activate

You should now see a (venv) prefix on your bash prompt like so:

(venv) user@host:~/project$

To deactivate the virtual environment, run the following command.

deactivate

Run the App