FastAPI: a Python backend

Lesson 09 · 10 min

Settings, CORS, and production

Configuration from the environment, access for the frontend, and running on a server.

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pydantic-settings reads environment variables (and .env) into a typed class: if DATABASE_URL is missing, the app fails at startup with a clear error. Settings are passed via Depends(get_settings), which makes them easy to replace in tests. CORSMiddleware lets a frontend on another domain read responses. On a server, run fastapi run or uvicorn with several workers.

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