Technical requirements
For this book, you’ll need a few things to aid you in your journey. The following are recommendations:
- The latest version of Python
- FastAPI (https://pypi.org/project/fastapi/)
- A local development environment on your laptop/desktop for your application server
- A MongoDB Atlas cloud account to host your database (https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register)
- Visual Studio Code or the IDE of your choice
Let’s begin with a very basic understanding of what the FARM stack is.