Full Stack FastAPI, React, and MongoDB : Fast-Paced Web App Development with the FARM Stack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aleksendrić, Marko.

Contributor:

Batra, Shrey.

Palmer, Rachelle.

Ranjan, Shubham.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web applications.

Python (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, 2024.

Biography/History:

Aleksendric Marko: Marko Aleksendric is an analyst, a scientist, and a freelance self-taught web developer with over 20 years of experience. Marko has authored the book Modern Web Development with the FARM Stack and Mastering MongoDB 7. 0, published by Packt Publishing. With a keen interest in backend and frontend development, he has been an avid MongoDB user for the last 15 years for various web and data analytics-related projects and has built numerous Python and JavaScript web applications and tools. Batra Shrey: Shrey is the Founder of Cosmocloud, a MongoDB Champion, and a software developer by passion. As a tech startup founder building a No-Code backend with MongoDB, he combines his passion for both MongoDB and building applications at scale. Working in the industry for over 8 years, he is also an active contributor to the technical community, speaks at various world conferences and meetups, and writes his own newsletter, System Design and Architecture, which has 50K+ subscribers. He is also a distributed algorithm patent holder for his work at LinkedIn on its Search and Discovery platform. Palmer Rachelle: Rachelle Palmer is the Product Leader for Developer Database Experience and Developer Education at MongoDB, overseeing the driver client libraries, documentation, framework integrations, and MongoDB University. She has built sample applications for MongoDB in Java, PHP, Rust, Python, Node. js, and Ruby. Rachelle joined MongoDB in 2013 and was previously the Director of the Technical Services Engineering team, creating and managing the team that provided support and CloudOps to MongoDB Atlas. Ranjan Shubham: Shubham Ranjan is a Product Manager at MongoDB for Python and a core contributing member to AI initiatives at MongoDB. He is also a Python developer and has published over 700 technical articles on topics ranging from data science and ML to competitive programming. Since joining MongoDB in 2019, Shubham has held several roles, progressing from a Software Engineer to a Product Manager for multiple products.

Summary:

This book serves as a comprehensive guide for developing modern web applications using the FARM stack, which includes FastAPI, React, and MongoDB. It is designed to facilitate fast-paced web app development, offering insights into both backend and frontend technologies. The authors, experienced in the field, aim to provide readers with practical knowledge and tools to build scalable web applications. The book is intended for developers who are new to web development with Python, offering step-by-step instructions to set up databases, understand type hints, and implement REST APIs efficiently. It draws from the authors' extensive experience and community insights to prepare readers for the evolving field of web application development. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Web Development and the FARM Stack

Technical requirements

What is the FARM stack?

Why the FARM stack?

Why use MongoDB?

Why use FastAPI?

Python and REST APIs

The frontend - React

Why use React?

Summary

Chapter 2: Setting Up the Database with MongoDB

The structure of a MongoDB database

Documents

Supported data types in MongoDB

Collections and databases

Options to install the MongoDB database

Installing MongoDB and related tools

Installing MongoDB and Compass on Windows

Installing the MongoDB Shell (mongosh)

MongoDB Database Tools

Installing MongoDB and Compass on Linux: Ubuntu

Setting up Atlas

Creating an Atlas cluster

Getting the connection string of your Atlas Cluster

Connecting to the Atlas cluster from Compass

MongoDB querying and CRUD operations

Querying in MongoDB

Projection

Creating new documents

Updating documents

Deleting documents

Chapter 3: Python Type Hints and Pydantic

Python types

Type hinting

Implementing type hints

Advanced annotations

Pydantic

Pydantic basics

Deserialization

Model fields

Pydantic types

Pydantic fields

Serialization

Custom data validation

Model validators

Nested models

Pydantic Settings

Chapter 4: Getting Started with FastAPI

Python setup

Virtual environments

Code editors

Terminal

REST clients

Installing the necessary packages

FastAPI in a nutshell

Starlette

Asynchronous programming

Standard REST API operations

How does FastAPI speak REST?

Automatic documentation

Building a showcase API

Retrieving path and query parameters

FastAPI response customization

Summary.

Chapter 5: Setting Up a React Workflow

Creating a React app using Vite

Tailwind CSS and installation

Components and building blocks of JSX

Recap

Components

Creating dynamic components

Events and state

React Hooks with events and state

Communicating with APIs and the outside world using useEffect

Exploring React Router and other useful packages

Chapter 6: Authentication and Authorization

Understanding JSON Web Token

What is JWT?

FastAPI backend with users and dependencies

User model for authentication

Authentication and authorization with FastAPI: a walk-through

Authenticating the users in React

Persisting authentication data with localStorage

Other authentication solutions

Chapter 7: Building a Backend with FastAPI

Introducing the application

Creating an Atlas instance and a collection

Setting up the Python environment

Defining the Pydantic models

Scaffolding a FastAPI application

Creating a .env file to keep the secrets

CRUD operations

The POST handler

Handling the GET requests

Updating and deleting records

Uploading images to Cloudinary

Adding the user model

FastAPI middleware and CORS

Deployment to Render.com

Chapter 8: Building the Frontend of the Application

Creating a Vite React application

React Router

Installing and setting up React Router

React Router loaders

React Hook Form and Zod

Performing data validation with Zod

Authentication context and storing the JWT

Implementing the login functionality

Protecting routes

Creating the page for inserting new cars

Displaying single cars

Chapter 9: Third-Party Services Integration with FastAPI and Beanie.

Technical requirements

Project outline

Building the backend with FastAPI and Beanie

Introduction to the Beanie ODM

Defining the models with Beanie

Connecting to the MongoDB database

Creating the FastAPI application

Background tasks with FastAPI

Integrating OpenAI with FastAPI

Chapter 10: Web Development with Next.js 14

Introduction to Next.js

Creating a Next.js 14 project

Next.js project structure

Routing with Next.js 14

Data loading with server components

Authentication and Server Actions in Next.js

Creating protected pages

Implementing the new car page

Providing metadata

Deployment on Netlify

Pushing the changes to GitHub

Chapter 11: Useful Resources and Project Ideas

MongoDB considerations

FastAPI and Python considerations

Testing FastAPI applications

React practices

Other topics

Authentication and authorization

Data visualization and the FARM stack

Relational databases

Some project ideas to get started

Old-school portfolio website

React-admin inventory

Plotly Dash or Streamlit to create exploratory data analysis applications

A document automation pipeline

Index

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ISBN:

9781835886779

1835886779

OCLC:

1454588009