Serve HTML with FastAPI

A very basic sample repo demonstrating how to use FastAPI to serve HTML web apps.

quickstart

# Create a virtual environment in your project folder, and activate it
$ python3 -m venv .env

# clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/anthlis/fastapi-html-basic.git

# install dependencies into a virtual environment
(.env) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

# start the HTML app
(Note to self, do not 'run' in PyCharm as if it's a Flask app!)
(.env) $ uvicorn app.html:app --reload --port 8080

Navigate to 127.0.0.1:8080/. You should see a 'hello world'.

Then try out 127.0.0.1:8080/form. Enter an integer number and see the result spelled out in words below the box in your browser.

Example:

FastAPI auto generates API Swagger documentation too:
Navigate to 127.0.0.1:8080/docs to review and try it out.