Fastman

The elegant CLI for FastAPI artisans.

Fastman is a Laravel-inspired command-line tool that brings structure, speed, and best practices to FastAPI development. Instead of manually wiring up project scaffolding, database configurations, migrations, and authentication — Fastman handles it all from the terminal so you can focus on building your application logic.

30 seconds to your first API

# 1. Install
pip install fastman

# 2. Create a project with PostgreSQL
fastman new my-api --database=postgresql

# 3. Navigate into the project and scaffold a feature
cd my-api
fastman make:feature users --crud

# 4. Create a migration, apply it, and start the server
fastman make:migration "create users table"
fastman database:migrate
fastman serve

Open http://localhost:8000/docs — you now have a fully documented REST API with CRUD endpoints, Swagger UI, database migrations, and a clean project structure.

Why Fastman?

FastAPI gives you incredible performance and flexibility — but every new project means repeating the same setup: choosing an architecture, configuring a database connection, setting up Alembic for migrations, adding authentication, and writing boilerplate for every new feature.

Fastman eliminates that repetitive work. With a single command you get opinionated defaults that follow production-tested best practices, while every generated file remains fully customizable. There's no lock-in — it's your code from the start.

What you get

Command	What it does
fastman new	Production-ready project with configuration, database, migrations, and tests
make:feature	Complete vertical slice — model, schema, service, and router — in one command
make:model, make:service, ...	15+ generators for every component type (controllers, middleware, repos, etc.)
database:migrate	Alembic migrations without touching INI files or configuration
install:auth --type=jwt	Full JWT auth with /register, /login, /me endpoints and password hashing
serve	Development server with automatic hot reload
tinker	Interactive Python shell with your database session pre-loaded
route:list	View all registered API routes in a formatted table

Supported databases

SQLite · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Oracle · Firebase

Supported package managers

uv · poetry · pipenv · pip — auto-detected from your project

Architecture patterns

• Feature — vertical slices, each feature is self-contained (recommended)
• API — resource-grouped with built-in API versioning
• Layer — traditional MVC-style separation of concerns

What's New in v0.2.6

• All commands now work correctly inside virtual environments (python -m instead of bare tool calls)
• Oracle projects use the modern oracledb driver instead of deprecated cx_Oracle
• Extra .env variables no longer crash the server on startup
• Project creation now shows a real-time progress bar
• Rich and pyfiglet are now installed automatically as core dependencies

See the full changelog.

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