Authenticate Users with FastAPI and Token Authentication

Introduction

Requirements

Create a virtual environment

python -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

Install the requirements

pip install fastapi
pip install uvicorn[standard]
pip install python-multipart
pip install python-jose[cryptography]
pip install passlib[bcrypt]

Generate a secret key

openssl rand -hex 32

Run the application

uvicorn main:app --reload

Test the application

http://localhost:8000/docs

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