# virtual_teacher_backend

**Repository Path**: robots-teacher/virtual_teacher_backend

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: virtual_teacher_backend
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2025-04-12
- **Last Updated**: 2025-04-12

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Description of the Project Structure:
- `app`: The main application directory.
  - `api`: Contains the API versioning (e.g., v1 for version 1) and the endpoint definitions.
    - `v1`: Specific version of the API.
      - `endpoints`: Holds the individual route modules.
        - `item_routes.py`: Routes for item-related operations.
        - `user_routes.py`: Routes for user-related operations.
        - `websocket_routes.py`: Routes for WebSocket connections.
      - `api.py`: The file to include all the routers and sub-applications.
  - `core`: Core configurations and shared dependencies.
    - `config.py`: Configuration settings for the app.
    - `security.py`: Security settings, such as password hashing, JWT settings, etc.
  - `models`: ORM models for the application.
    - `item_model.py`: Item model.
    - `user_model.py`: User model.
  - `schemas`: Pydantic schemas for request and response models.
    - `item_schema.py`: Schemas related to items.
    - `user_schema.py`: Schemas related to users.
  - `services`: Business logic and service layer.
    - `item_service.py`: Business logic related to items.
    - `user_service.py`: Business logic related to users.
    - `microservice_client.py`: Clients for calling microservices.
  - `templates`: HTML templates for webpages.
  - `static`: Static files like CSS, JS, and images.
  - `main.py`: The entry point to the FastAPI application.
  - `tests`: Contains all your unit and integration tests.
  - `Dockerfile`: The Docker configuration file for building container images.
  - `docker-compose.yml`: To define and run multi-container Docker applications.
  - `requirements.txt`: All the dependencies of the project.
  - `README.md`: A markdown file containing information about the project setup and usage.

## Best Practices for Production:

- Use environment variables for configuration (`core/config.py` can handle this).
- Include proper logging in the `services` and `api` layers.
- Employ authentication and authorization in the `core/security.py`.
- Use `schemas` to validate incoming data and serialize outgoing data.
- Implement tests for the `api`, `services`, and `models`.
- Organize your endpoints into different files by resource or domain.
- Structure WebSocket endpoints clearly within the `endpoints` folder.
- Create a `services/microservice_client.py` to handle interactions with other services.
- Manage dependencies using a `requirements.txt` file or preferably a `Pipfile` using pipenv.
- Add documentation to your API by using FastAPI's built-in support for OpenAPI.
- Use Docker for consistent development, testing, and deployment environments.
- Consider adding `middlewares` for CORS, error handling, etc., as needed.


## Run the backend:
`uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8020 --reload`

## Python version
`3.10`