A production-ready FastAPI full-stack boilerplate to kickstart your modern backend projects with a clean architecture. Built with performance and scalability in mind, this template comes with everything you need for rapid development.

Before Getting Started understand the Project Structure

git clone https://github.com/Dev-Shivaprasad/Fastapi-Tamplate.git

cd fastapi-fullstack-template/backend

uv sync

• There is already a file is provided called example_env.txt which contains all the necessary variables just replace them.

# linux
cp example_env.txt .env
# windows
copy example_env.txt .env

• All the DataBase table schemas and models are stored in the models/ folder

alembic upgrade head

use alembic revision --autogenerate -m <name_of_the_migration> to create the migration
or
alembic revision -m <name_of_the_migration> for empty migration

All the necessary server configuration is done in the main.py file
docs / Swagger UI is locally hosted on this link http://localhost:8000/docs

uv run main.py

• ⚡ FastAPI + Uvicorn — High-performance async API server

• 🔗 SQLModel — ORM by the creator of FastAPI (based on SQLAlchemy)

• 📦 Alembic — Robust and flexible database migrations

• 🔐 JWT Authentication — Secure token-based auth with PyJWT

• 🧂 Password Hashing — Credential hashing via Bcrypt

• 🚀 Orjson — Super-fast JSON parsing for response speed

• 🧩 Modular Architecture — Clean, scalable, and organized codebase

• 🌱 .env Support — Environment-based flexible configuration

• ⏱️ Rate Limiting — Prevent abuse & DoS

• 🐳 Docker — Dockerfile, docker-compose, and Nginx setup

• 🟥 Redis — Caching layer

FASTAPI-TEMPLATE/
│
├── backend/
│ ├── .venv/ # uv-managed virtual environment
│ │
│ ├── alembic # Alembic migration files
│ │
│ ├── core
│ │├─ authentication/ # JWT logic, login, password hashing
│ │├─ cache/ # redis cache setup and initialization (optional)
│ │├─ database/ # DB session setup and initialization
│ │├─ ratelimiter/ # ratelimiter setup and initialization (optional)
│ │└─ helperfunctions.py # contains helper functions
│ │
│ ├── docker/ (optional)
│ │ ├─ .dockerignore # Docker build exclusions
│ │ └─ .Dockerfile # Backend container definition
│ │ │ ├── services/ # contains services (like JWT middleware) for business logic and operations.
│ │
│ ├── src/
│ │ ├─ controllers/ # API route handlers
│ │ ├─ models/ # SQLModel ORM models
│ │ └─ ControllerTemplate.py # controller boilerplate
│ │
│ ├── .env.backup # a demo .env
│ ├── .gitignore # File specifying untracked files to ignore.
│ ├── .python-version # Python version pin
│ ├── alembic.ini # Alembic configuration
│ ├── main.py # App entry point
│ ├── pyproject.toml # uv dependency definition
│ └── uv.lock # Dependency lock file
│
├── docker_and_nginix_configurations/ (optional)
│ ├── env.production # Production environment
│ ├── docker-compose.dev.yml # Development Docker Compose
│ ├── docker-compose.yml # Main Docker Compose configuration
│ ├── DOCKER.md # Docker documentation
│ ├── env.production.example # Production environment template
│ └── nginx.conf # Nginx reverse proxy config
│
├── frontend/ # Optional frontend (React, Vue, etc.)
│
└── README.md # Main documentation

For containerized development and deployment, we now provide comprehensive Docker support:

Development Environment:

# Start development environment with hot reload
docker-compose -f ./docker_and_nginix_configurations/docker-compose.dev.yml up --build

Production Environment:

# Copy production environment template
cp ./docker_and_nginix_configurations/env.production.example docker_and_nginix_configurations/.env.production
# Edit .env.production with your values
# Start production stack
docker-compose --env-file ./docker_and_nginix_configurations/.env.production --profile production up -d

• 🚀 Multi-stage builds : for optimized production images
• 🔄 Hot reload : for development
• 🗄️ PostgreSQL : for production database
• 🔒 Nginx : reverse proxy and abstraction
• 📊 Health checks : and monitoring
• 🔐 Security : best practices

📖 Full Docker documentation: See DOCKER.md for detailed setup and usage instructions.

Here’s what’s planned or coming soon:

• Rate Limiting — Prevent abuse & DoS

• Nginx — secure routing and abstraction

• Docker — Dockerfile & docker-compose setup

• Redis — Caching layer

• The frontend/ folder is a placeholder — use it with any frontend framework like:

• ⚛️ React / Next.js

• 🔥 Vue / Nuxt

• 🌌 Astro / SvelteKit

You can remove it if not needed.

Feel free to open issues, suggest improvements, or submit a pull request. Let’s make this great together 😊.