Summary

That’s all for this chapter, which covered authentication and security in FastAPI. We saw that implementing a basic authentication system is quite easy thanks to the tools provided by FastAPI. We’ve shown you one way to do this, but there are plenty of other good patterns out there to tackle this challenge. However, when working on this matter, always keep security in mind and be sure that you don’t expose your application and your users’ data to dangerous threats. In particular, you’ve seen that CSRF attacks have to be taken care of when designing a REST API that will be used in a browser application. A good source to understand all the security risks involved in a web application is the OWASP Cheat Sheet Series: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org.

With that, we’ve covered most of the important subjects concerning FastAPI application development. In the next chapter, we’ll learn how to work with a recent technology that&...