Modern APIs with FastAPI and Python Transcripts
Chapter: Deploying FastAPI on Linux with gunicorn and nginx
Lecture: venv forever
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So, on the server, It's only purpose is to run this web application. To run this web application, we need to have the virtual environment activated.
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So what I'm going to show you is that, let's ask really which Python 3 real quick, so we know where it, there. Having
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that directory is gonna help. What I'm gonna propose is that we change our log in, so as we log in it just activates that virtual environment.
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Otherwise, if we do Python stuff, pip and Python and so on, It's gonna work with the system one. We almost never, ever want to change it.
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We almost always just want to work with this one virtual environment. So let's just make that the default.
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So we'd say "nano dot zshrc", go down to the bottom here and we'll say source, go to bin, Python will say activate, like that. If I exit
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out and I log back in, look at this. Yes, it's the right one. If I "pip list", it's all the stuff that we just installed, FastAPI and so on.
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That's super cool, right? So I totally recommend that you set it up so when you log into your server,
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it just sets up the environment for that one and Web app. If you got 20 Web apps and all sorts of things going on,
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maybe it doesn't make sense. In this simple world, I think this is the best thing to do.