An alternative to Postman There are excellent solutions that exist to test web applications and APIs. To name just a few: Selenium, Playwright, Postman, and Hoppscotch. They work well, if you are satisfied with that, you may not need to read the rest of this article. But if you are…

Create robust and maintainable projects using the right tools After 9 years of Python development, I tested different ways to install Python and configure my projects. For those who are rather junior or even curious, to avoid you tearing your hair out on these issues as I did, I will…

furl at your rescue If you ever manipulate URLs in Python using the urlparse library, you may have felt frustrated because you had to juggle several APIs to get to your end. With furl you have an intuitive and uniform API to get the job done. …

Formatting tools for python One thing we shouldn’t waste time on when code reviewing is understanding the code style of the author. We should have consistent code formatting across our team. This is also true for open-source software. To help with coding formatting they are various tools that exist in…

Ruff: your new best friend for fast code listing The default linter many Pythonista know and use is probably Flake8. I’m also a huge user of this excellent library. But recently, I discovered Ruff, and it seems to be a game changer. I will introduce some of its features in…

Learn how to implement different pagination patterns with FastAPI When reading the excellent FastAPI documentation, I noticed that there was something missing that is quite crucial in any real-world application: pagination. For information, pagination is a process to divide a large dataset into smaller chunks to prevent broking your API…

Simplify your SQLAlchemy workflow with Alchemical Did you struggle to correctly instantiate a database session with SQLAlchemy? Managing migrations with alembic? Handling multiple databases? I had at least struggled with the first two and I’m betting I’m not alone. This is where Alchemical comes in. It will radically simplify your…

Simplify logic for startup and shutdown events I want to talk about a slight improvement brought in FastAPI 0.93.0. Prior to this version, if we were going to do some initialization setup and cleanup at the shutdown of the application, we needed to define two functions. Here is a simple…

Run isolated python applications with pipx Imagine you want to install a video downloader written in python like let’s say you-get. What would naturally come to mind would be to use pip to install the application. This works well but the concern is that you will pollute your global environment…