Installation¶

Requirements¶

$ uv add fastapi
Adding fastapi to Pipfile's [packages]…
✔ Installation Succeeded
Locking [dev-packages] dependencies…
✔ Success!
Locking [packages] dependencies…
✔ Success!
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Optional requirements¶

For production you also need an ASGI server, such as uvicorn:

$ uv add uvicorn
Adding uvicorn to Pipfile's [packages]…
✔ Installation Succeeded
Locking [dev-packages] dependencies…
✔ Success!
Locking [packages] dependencies…
✔ Success!
Updated Pipfile.lock (051f02)!
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Pydantic can use the optional dependencies

ujson: for faster JSON parsing.
email_validator: for email validation.

Starlette can use the optional dependencies

httpx: if you want to use the TestClient.
jinja: if you want to use the default template configuration.
graphene: for GraphQLApp support.
orjson: if you want to use ORJSONResponse.
aiofiles: if you want to use FileResponse or StaticFiles.
itsdangerous: required for SessionMiddleware support.
pyyaml: for Starlette’s SchemaGenerator support.
python-multipart: if you want to support form parsing, with request.form().
ujson: if you want to use UJSONResponse.