Django FastAPI

Allows to use FastAPI top of Django

Quickstart

Install required packages:

pip install django-fastapi daphne

Note that daphne is required only for changing runserver command to work with ASGI. It is not required for production usage.

Add django_fastapi and daphne to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py file:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "daphne",  # must be before django.cotrib.staticfiles
    "django.contrib.staticfiles",
    # ...
    "django_fastapi",
]

Set ASGI_APPLICATION in your settings.py file:

ASGI_APPLICATION = "django_fastapi.asgi.application"

Development server (ASGI w/Daphne)

Run development server:

python manage.py runserver

Production server (ASGI w/Uvicorn)

Install Uvicorn:

pip install uvicorn

Run uvicorn:

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=yourproject.settings uvicorn django_fastapi.asgi:application

Configuration

Base settings

To configure default FastAPI instance you can use these settings:

• FASTAPI_TITLE: set's API title [FastAPI(title=FASTAPI_TITLE)]
• FASTAPI_VERSION: set's API version [FastAPI(version=FASTAPI_VERSION)]
• FASTAPI_ROOT_PATH: set's API root path [FastAPI(root_path=FASTAPI_ROOT_PATH)]

CORS

• FASTAPI_CORS_ENABLED: if True, adds CORS middleware to the default FastAPI instance (disabled by default)
• FASTAPI_CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINS: defaults to ["*"]
• FASTAPI_CORS_ALLOW_CREDENTIALS: defaults to True
• FASTAPI_CORS_ALLOW_METHODS: defaults to ["*"]
• FASTAPI_CORS_ALLOW_HEADERS: defaults to ["*"]

Autodiscover

• FASTAPI_AUTODISCOVER: if True, Django FastAPI will automatically import FASTAPI_AUTODISCOVER_MODULES from your INSTALLED_APPS. Default: True
• FASTAPI_AUTODISCOVER_MODULES: defaults to ["api"]

License

ISC

Copyright 2023 Marcin Nowak <marcin.j.nowak.gmail.com>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

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