README.md

Backend of Social Media Application by using FastAPI

Access the API documentation here : https://fastapi-social-media-app.onrender.com/docs . The documentation containes more information about all the routes and paths

How to run Locally

First clone this repo by using following command

git clone https://github.com/manukoip/Social-Media-App-FastAPI.git

then

cd fastapi-course

Then install fastapp using all flag like

pip install fastapi[all]

Then go this repo folder in your local computer run follwoing command

uvicorn main:app --reload

Then you can use following link to use the API

http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs 

After run this API you need a database in postgres

Create a database in postgres then create a file name .env and write the following things in you file

DATABASE_HOSTNAME = localhost
DATABASE_PORT = 5432
DATABASE_PASSWORD = passward_that_you_set
DATABASE_NAME = name_of_database
DATABASE_USERNAME = User_name
SECRET_KEY = 09d25e094faa2556c818166b7a99f6f0f4c3b88e8d3e7 
ALGORITHM = HS256
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES = 60(base)

Note: SECRET_KEY in this exmple is just a psudo key. You need to get a key for youself and you can get the SECRET_KEY from fastapi documantion