High-Performance Web Apps with FastAPI: The Asynchronous Web Framework Based on Modern Python

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M. LathkarHigh-Performance Web Apps with FastAPIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9178-8_4

4. Templates

Malhar Lathkar¹  

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Nanded, Maharashtra, India

 

FastAPI, as its name suggests, is primarily intended to be a library for API development. However, it can very well be used to build web apps of traditional type, that is, the ones rendering web pages, images, and other assets.

In this chapter, we shall learn how FastAPI renders web pages with the help of templates.

This chapter consists of the following topics:

• HTML response

• Template engine

• Hello World template

• Template with path parameter

• Template variables

• Serving static assets

• HTML form template

• Retrieve form data ...