Back-end Clone of Social Media App Using FastAPI

The API and postgres database are deployed on render ecommerce-api-pqjs.onrender.com

This API has four routes

1. User route:
   For creating new users,searching and deleting users by their id
2. Post route:
   This route is used for creating, updating, deleting and checking posts.
3. Auth route:
   Login system
4. Vote route:
   This route is used for liking and disliking a post

Clone this repo and cd into the folder

git clone https://github.com/quirrelHK/social-meida-app-api.git

cd social-meida-app-api

Install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

You would require to set up your own database in postgre

Uncomment this line in main.py for creating tables using sqlalchemy

models.Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)

Or you can use alembic for creating tables.

After this create a .env file in the current directory and add the following:

DATABASE_HOSTNAME=localhost
DATABASE_PORT=5432
DATABASE_PASSWORD=your_db_password
DATABASE_NAME=your_db_name
DATABASE_USERNAME=your_db_user_name
SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key
ALGORITHM=HS256
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES=60

You can generate secret key using this command in terminal:

openssl rand -hex 20

Run the app

uvicorn app.main:app --reload

Alternatively you can use docker

You call pull the image from docker-hub:

docker pull ritesh778/apipython

Or build the and run the image:

docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up -d --build