Learn by Doing: Building a Python API with FastAPI for Node.js Developers Part 02

Marcos Henrique da Silva
10 min readJul 10, 2023

This second article to guide Node.js developers who are interested in exploring Python and FastAPI for building high-performance APIs; we will connect our API to a database and beyond.

If you’re a Node.js developer with experience building APIs and you’re looking to broaden your horizons, this article is for you. I assume you understand API development concepts and want to bridge the knowledge gap between Node.js and Python. I’ll help you transition smoothly and showcase the power of FastAPI for building efficient and performant APIs.

In the first part, we briefly introduced some basic Python concepts and how to apply it in FastAPI, a way that I think it is an easy transition from node.js backend frameworks such as express.js and Nest.js.

If you missed it, please read it here

To start/continue

Let’s get the latest code on branch 001 from the first article that you can find here

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