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TLDR

A production-ready starter template for full-stack web apps with FastAPI backend, React frontend, PostgreSQL database, authentication, and Docker, skip months of boilerplate setup.

Mindmap

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    Backend
      FastAPI Python
      SQLModel ORM
      PostgreSQL
      JWT auth
    Frontend
      React TypeScript
      Vite bundler
      Tailwind CSS
      Auto-generated client
    DevOps
      Docker Compose
      GitHub Actions CI
      Production ready
    Use Cases
      SaaS products
      Internal tools
      Web applications
      User accounts

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Launch a SaaS product with user authentication and a database without building infrastructure from scratch.

USE CASE 2

Build an internal tool with a React frontend and Python backend that stays in sync automatically.

USE CASE 3

Deploy a web application to production using Docker with CI/CD already configured.

USE CASE 4

Create a relational database-backed application with login and token-based security pre-wired.

Tech stack

PythonFastAPISQLModelPostgreSQLReactTypeScriptViteDocker

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires Docker and Docker Compose to run the full stack; PostgreSQL setup is containerized but needs initial database migration.

Use freely for any purpose including commercial, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

In plain English

The Full Stack FastAPI Template is a production-ready project starter for building modern web applications. It bundles a carefully chosen set of best-practice technologies into a working skeleton so you can go from zero to a deployed application with authentication, a database, a frontend, and CI/CD already configured rather than assembling the pieces yourself. On the backend, the template uses FastAPI with Python and SQLModel for database interaction, backed by PostgreSQL. It ships with JWT-based authentication already wired up, so you get login, registration, and token refresh out of the box. The frontend is built with React and Vite using TypeScript, styled with Tailwind CSS, and the API client is generated automatically from the FastAPI OpenAPI spec, keeping the frontend types in sync with the backend without manual maintenance. The entire stack runs in Docker and Docker Compose, making local development and production deployment consistent. A GitHub Actions workflow handles continuous integration. You would use this template when starting a new SaaS product, internal tool, or web application and you want to skip the boilerplate setup phase entirely. It makes the most sense when you need a full-stack system with user accounts and a relational database rather than a static site or a purely API-driven product. Teams that are comfortable with Python on the backend and React on the frontend will find the conventions familiar and the structure easy to extend. The primary language in the repository is TypeScript for the frontend layer, with Python for the backend. Maintenance and development of the template is led by the FastAPI project itself.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
How do I customize the database schema in this FastAPI template to add new user fields?
Prompt 2
Show me how to generate a new API endpoint in FastAPI and have the React frontend client update automatically.
Prompt 3
How do I deploy this full-stack template to production using Docker Compose?
Prompt 4
How do I add a new page to the React frontend and connect it to a FastAPI endpoint in this template?
Prompt 5
What's the authentication flow in this template and how do I modify the JWT token expiration?
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