Deployment to Render.com

Render.com is one of numerous modern cloud platforms that simplify deploying and managing web applications, APIs, static sites, and other types of software projects. It provides developers with an intuitive and simple interface and powerful automation tools and pipelines.

There are many ways to deploy a FastAPI instance: Vercel (known mainly as the company behind Next.js), Fly.io, Ralway, Heroku, and so on.

In this case, we will choose Render.com as it provides a simple, fast, streamlined deployment procedure, and has a free tier and excellent documentation.

The deployment process can be broken into steps, and you will review each one of them briefly; it is also useful to visit their FastAPI-dedicated page if you wish to get up to speed: https://docs.render.com/deploy-fastapi.

Here are the steps:

1. Set up a GitHub repo for your backend.

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