Summary

In this chapter, we added a very simple yet powerful caching solution based on Redis – an incredibly powerful product in its own right. We went through the tedious but often necessary procedure of hosting the API on a Ubuntu server behind Gunicorn and the mighty Nginx – a server that offers so much flexibility and configurability that it simply has to be put in the conversation of the FARM stack. As a bonus, we explored yet another cheap (well, free) frontend hosting option – Netlify – which offers premiere continuous deployment and plays very nicely with all our frontend solutions, be it plain React or Next.js or maybe, in the future, React-Remix. Now, you should feel confident enough to dive head-first into your next project and peruse the numerous options that FastAPI, React, and MongoDB have to offer by playing nicely with each other.

In the next chapter, we will try to address some of the best practices that pertain to the components of the...