FastAPI Assistant
FastAPI Assistant is a Visual Studio Code extension that streamlines the quick creation of FastAPI projects and modules, as well as the automatic generation of schemas, filters, and APIs.
What' news?
- 2026.01.26: Support creating
External Schema Directory in multi-project environments, allowing multiple projects to share a common schema
Features
- Quick FastAPI Project Creation
- Create projects via
uv, with automatic installation of essential dependencies including FastAPI, SQLModel, psycopg, Alembic, and JWT
- Set up the project file structure
- Integrate core features such as user authentication, user management, automatic route registration, and schema-aware database migrations
- Quick FastAPI Module Creation
- Quick FastAPI Schema and Filter Creation
- Quick FastAPI API Creation (with basic CRUD functionality)
- Create External Schema directory for reuse across multiple projects
- Quickly create External Schema
- CLI Mode Support (similar to django's manage.py)
Usage
Most features of FastAPI Assistant are accessible via the right-click context menu in the Explorer panel.
Create Project
Create a FastAPI project at the selected location (supports project creation in any directory within the workspace)
Create Module
Create a FastAPI module at the selected location
Create Schema
Add a set of schemas to schema.py and corresponding filters to filter.py within the module at the selected location
Create API
Add basic CRUD operation APIs for the corresponding schema to api.py within the module at the selected location
Create External Schema Directory
In multi-project environments, you can create an external schema directory to share schemas across multiple projects
!!! If the plugin fails to update the .env file automatically, please manually update the external_schema_path field in the .env file under your FastAPI project. This field supports both relative and absolute paths.
Add External Schema
Add Schema group (including Read, Create, Update models) to External Schema Directory
Command Line
Execute CLI commands using the syntax: "python [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]`
Supported Commands:
- migrate: Run database migrations with Alembic
- root-user: Create an administrator user
- serve: Start the FastAPI application with Uvicorn
Update Project Template
If you are not satisfied with the current project template, you can modify the project template style yourself. The template files are stored in[Extension Installation Directory]/assets directory.
Requirements
- uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.
Release Notes
0.1.3: update README.md
0.1.2: Support creating External Schema Directory in multi-project environments, allowing multiple projects to share a common schema
0.1.1：Add background task support by taskiq
0.1.0: Initial usable version. Implements project creation, module creation, schema generation, and API generation.
