Advice on REST API deployment

[Beatrix]

Hello everyone, I was about to deploy my first major project, a Rest API built with fastapi that connected to a mongodb database.

I have tried doing a bit of research on how to deploy my api but most of the articles that I read were about deploying a simper version of an api, ie one that was not connected to a database and just worked from objects in a list.

I have found on fcc this article :

How to deploy your MongoDB app to Heroku

In this guide let’s see how to work with MongoDB locally and with mLab for deploying it to Heroku. Alternatively you can also use mLab add-on in Heroku , It is free but it may require your credit card details. So, if you are not intrested in providing your credit card details you can go with mLab website. Setting up a free account on Heroku and mLab : Sign up for Heroku and mLab Starting your Mongodb(Locally): To start your DB on your own system execute the following command: # Create a …

that explains how to deploy your mongodb app to heroku, which seems to describe something similar to the thing I want (a deployment of a mongodb and fast api rest api to heroku)

This guide was built with node.js in mind, and not python.

How would I go about following this guide if My app was written using python and fast api as opposed to JavaScript and node.js?

[gdennci]

Hey Beatrix,

Heroku has a nice tutorial for Pythoneers too:

Getting Started on Heroku with Python | Heroku Dev Center

The “Provision a Database” section of the tutorial uses PostgreSQL, but you should be able to use the MongoDB add-on that was used in the NodeJS + Mondodb tutorial that you found.

I’d suggest you give it a try. Just drop us a message here if you get stuck with the tutorial, and we will help you.

best
Dennis

[Beatrix]

Many thanks, I will give this a go! In the worst case scenario I could just include the github source code of this api when I am applying for jobs, but I think that recruiters would be more pleased to see a deployed version of my project