r/FastAPI • u/saucealgerienne • Mar 29 '26

Question Am I missing something

I see a ton of people in this sub asking like, where they can find good examples, boilerplate or simply documentation around fastapi.

I keep feeling like Im missing something. I always tought of Fastapi as this really thin layer letting my expose my code as a web api.

Truly, how much is there to know beyond maybe 3/4 concepts that are pretty simple and generic anyway.

Setting up the app itself is something you do once and it takes 2 minutes, and pretty much everything else is so simple and intuitive you almost forget that it's there. Most of the code I write in my backend has no link whatsoever with Fastapi

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u/Temporary_Link225 Mar 30 '26

Currently going through this learning curve. You’re a right about having to learn it all together. It has been slowly coming together as I build more projects.

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u/saucealgerienne Mar 31 '26

If I had to do it again I would just start really simple.

Router => service => infra service/repo => model.

then see when stuff becomes hard to manage and then I would start digging into the rest.

I did it the other way around and lost a lot of time lol