FastAPI top-level dependencies

Sebastián Ramírez
2 min readJan 3, 2021

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Intro

FastAPI version 0.62.0 comes with global dependencies that you can apply to a whole application.

As well as top-level dependencies, tags, and other parameters for APIRouters, that before were available only on app.include_router().

This makes it easier to put configurations and dependencies (e.g. for authentication) related to a group of path operations more closely…

Sebastián Ramírez

Creator of FastAPI and Typer. Dev at Exposion AI. APIs, Deep Learning/Machine Learning, full-stack distributed systems, SQL/NoSQL, Python, Docker, JS, TS, etc.