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FARM Stack Course

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Lukasz Sokolowski

FARM Stack Course

FARM Stack Training Materials

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Overview

• What is FARM stack?
• FARM vs MERN

FARM acronym

• FAstAPI - FastAPI
• React - React
• MongoDB - MongoDB

FastAPI Intro

• Fast and fast to code
  • Very high performance (like NodeJS or Go)
• Fewer bugs and intuitive
  • Reduce of human errors, great editor support (completion, less debugging)
• Easy and short
  • easy to use and learn (less docs),
  • plenty features from each parameter, etc
• Robust and standards-based:
  • production-ready code, automatic interactive docs
  • OpenAPI (aka Swagger), JSON Schema, etc

Our Course Plan

In overall

1. DAY1 - FARM intro, JS, TS, React.js
   • js_mats (bits only) - Typescript
   • dev envi(FE)
   • react part (hands-on) - React Basics
2. DAY2 - MongoDB, FastAPI, connecting with FE (react)
   • dev envi(BE)
   • db - cli, queries, functions - MongoDB part
   • FastAPI - crud, deploying, securing, testing

Exercises for FastAPI part

Collapsed by default, some additional exercs below

Technology Stack

FastAPI (latest stable)
Python 3.13+
MongoDB
Motor (official async MongoDB driver)
Pydantic v2
Uvicorn
Python typing
Async/await throughout the application