Pydantic + FastAPI + SQLModel + SQLite

This template provides a minimal setup to get FastAPI working with a sqlite database.

SQLModel is used on top of Pydantic and SQLAlchemy to easily define database objects.

Getting started

Install dependencies

First, create a new virtual environment for the project:

uv venv

This will create an environment .venv/ that you can instantiate like this:

source .venv/bin/activate

Once that's done, install the dependencies like this:

uv pip install -e ".[dev]"

This will install the project in editable mode, meaning your changes will be reflected in the server. The dev dependencies are also installed for code formatting.

Run server

Run:

make dev

Backend server should be available on localhost:

INFO:     Will watch for changes in these directories: ['/home/wauplin/projects/docker-space-fastapi-react/backend']
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
INFO:     Started reloader process [355687] using StatReload
INFO:     Started server process [355689]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.

Hot reload is enabled, meaning backend is reloaded on each file update.

Code quality

You can run the formatter with:

make style

and then test everything's fine with:

make quality