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Code snippets for FastAPI development
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FastAPI Snippets for VS Code

⚠️ Disclaimer ⚠️

This is not the official Visual Studio Code extension. This is a community-created extension that provides useful code snippets for FastAPI development. This extension helps you write FastAPI code faster with ready-to-use snippets for common patterns and structures.

Features

  • Basic FastAPI application setup
  • HTTP method endpoints (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
  • Pydantic models
  • Dependencies
  • Error handlers
  • Middleware
  • Database session setup
  • And more!

Installation

  1. Open VS Code
  2. Go to the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X)
  3. Search for "FastAPI Snippets"
  4. Click Install

Usage

Type the prefix of the snippet you want to use and press Tab or Enter to insert it. Here are the available snippets:

Prefix Description
fastapi-app Create a basic FastAPI application
fastapi-get Create a GET endpoint
fastapi-post Create a POST endpoint
fastapi-put Create a PUT endpoint
fastapi-delete Create a DELETE endpoint
fastapi-model Create a Pydantic model
fastapi-dep Create a FastAPI dependency
fastapi-error Create an exception handler
fastapi-middleware Create a custom middleware
fastapi-db Set up database session with SQLAlchemy
fastapi-query Create an endpoint with query parameters
fastapi-path Create an endpoint with path parameters
fastapi-form Create an endpoint that accepts form data
fastapi-upload Create an endpoint for file uploads
fastapi-oauth2 Set up OAuth2 password bearer authentication
fastapi-cors Add CORS middleware to your FastAPI application
fastapi-bg Create an endpoint with background tasks
fastapi-ws Create a WebSocket endpoint
fastapi-response Create an endpoint with custom response model and headers
fastapi-rate Implement rate limiting middleware
fastapi-cache Implement caching with Redis
fastapi-test Create a test case for FastAPI endpoints

Example

  1. Type fastapi-app in a Python file
  2. Press Tab or Enter
  3. The following code will be inserted:
from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()

@app.get("/")
async def root():
    return {"message": "Hello World"}

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import uvicorn
    uvicorn.run(app, host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

Requirements

  • Visual Studio Code 1.60.0 or higher
  • Python 3.7 or higher

Contributing

We welcome your feedback and suggestions to improve these snippets.

  1. Fork the repository
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
  5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Support

If you find any issues or have suggestions, please open an issue on GitHub.

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