Create your first REST API in FastAPI
A step by step guide creating high performance APIs in Python

This post is part of the FastAPI series. In this post, I am going to introduce FastAPI: A Python-based framework to create Rest APIs. I will briefly introduce you to some basic features of this framework and then we will create a simple set of APIs for a contact management system. Knowledge of Python is very necessary to use this framework. Before we discuss the FastAPI framework, let’s talk a bit about REST itself. From Wikipedia: Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating Web services. Web services that conform to the REST architectural style, called RESTful Web services,…