Summary

Securing any applications is always the main priority in producing quality software. We always choose frameworks that support reliable and credible security solutions, and that can at least prevent malicious attacks from the outside environment. Although we know for a fact that a perfect security model is a myth, we always develop security solutions that can cope with the threats we know.

FastAPI is one of the API frameworks that has built-in support for many popular authentication processes, from Basic to the OpenID Connect specification. It fully supports all effective OAuth2 authentication schemes and is even open to further customization of its security APIs.

Although it has no direct support for the OpenID Connect specification, it can still integrate seamlessly with different popular identities and user management systems, such as Auth0, Okta, and Keycloak. This framework may still surprise us with many security utilities and classes in the future that we can...