Creating async CRUD transactions using Motor

Motor is an asynchronous driver that relies on the AsyncIO environment of the FastAPI. It wraps PyMongo to produce non-blocking and coroutine-based classes and methods needed to create asynchronous repository layers. It is almost like PyMongo when it comes to most of the requirements except for the database connectivity and repository implementation.

But before we proceed, we need to install the motor extension using the following pip command:

pip install motor

Setting up the database connectivity

Using the AsyncIO platform of the FastAPI, the Motor driver opens a connection to the MongoDB database through its AsyncIOMotorClient class. When instantiated, the default connection credential is always localhost at port 27017. Alternatively, we can specify the new details in str format through its constructor. The following script shows how to create a global AsyncIOMotorClient reference with the specified database credentials:

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