Visualize FastAPI endpoints with FastAPI-Voyager

https://www.newsyeah.fun/voyager/

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brulard•2mo ago

I would appreciate some quick info what this is all about. Clicking on link presents me with a huge diagram i know nothing about. What am I looking at?

tank-34•2mo ago

this project is inspired by https://apis.guru/graphql-voyager/, which visualize the entity relationships based on graphviz and add fancy ui effects.

fastapi-voyager, from left to right, is tag, routes(apis) and response_models, it indicates the internal relationship between routes, which can help developers/PO easily figure out the data structure.

tonyhart7•2mo ago

ok, how is this better than OpenAPI schema???

tank-34•2mo ago

in swagger, from the definition of schema you are not able to easily figure out the related class, the name is marked as <object> or array<object>

in voyager their relationships are visualized and very close to the source code.

Noumenon72•2mo ago

What are the files like router.sample_1.schema? Is that a convention you use for your Pydantic models or something generated by OpenApi?

tank-34•2mo ago

https://github.com/allmonday/composition-oriented-developmen...

those are clusters based on modules, you can swith off by toggle 'show module cluster'

Noumenon72•2mo ago

So this isn't really "visualize FastAPI endpoints", it's "visualize the inheritance cascade caused by using the pydantic-resolve approach to data fetching/transformation, which involves adding post-hooks to compositions of Pydantic objects". A vanilla FastAPI user like myself is going to have trouble understanding it without realizing how tied it is to that framework.

nine_k•2mo ago

While at it, what do you use to parse / validate / cast request data into nice typechecked objects?

tank-34•2mo ago

the return value in resolve/post method will be automatically validated by the pydantic class defined in field annotation.

tank-34•2mo ago

it's not bound with pydantic-resolve, for vanilla fastapi user if the business model are well designed and composed, it can benefited from this visualization approach too.

the goal is to make the dependencies clear for developers, and figure out the potential impacts from one node to others.

pydantic-resolve is just another my project to make the process of data composition close to ER model and get rid of glue codes like 'for loops'.

tank-34•2mo ago

to better describe the relationship, it borrows the concept 'subset' from pydantic-resolve, which act like pick several fields from original class but you can still reference to it.

@subset(User) class PickedUser: ....

tracker1•2mo ago

This seems to show much deeper into the backend... OpenAPI really only shows the API surface as kind of a black box for external usage... this seems to be to aid diagnostics and understanding of internal calls and relationships.

tank-34•2mo ago

you are right, in fact the most valuable part in our backend is 'business mode/logic', with voyager we can have a new choice to better understand them.

agumonkey•2mo ago

Pretty nice

tank-34•2mo ago

scroll to zoom in/out

pick tag/routes at left panel, and see subgraphs

double click to see field table and source code, click link to see source code in github

click focus to hide other nodes.

...

tank-34•2mo ago

heere is the repo: https://github.com/allmonday/fastapi-voyager

throwaway0X13•2mo ago

Mapping software in /src/ modding, either with GIS software for positional API voyaging, which designate the tiers for endpoints.

btbuildem•2mo ago

Needs more discovery interactions - first one being node mouseover highlights all associated links.

It's 2025, I don't want to look at a giant hairball. At top level, give me a summary, reveal detail as I drill down.

Am I using this as a reference? The search looks promising, I can follow thru and find specifics on a particular item I am after.

tank-34•2mo ago

thanks for suggestion. this project is still in early stage, I've listed some ux related Todos but not yet finished. TBH, i dont expected it to be noticed in hacker's news LOL

tank-34•2mo ago

if you double click route / pydantic class and click 'view in vscode', it will lead you to the file in github

and in local env, you can 'really' open it in vscode.

jmpeax•2mo ago

There has to be a better way to view this than the tangled web of overlapping lines, like that at lower left of the "services" rectangle on the right, even with the selection highlighting. Perhaps there is not, and it is fertile ground for developing a new visualization.

nine_k•2mo ago

Click any node, and everything not related to that node fades.

The tangled mess kind of picture is still sometimes useful: you can roughly see bunches grouped, and notice things that are all over the place.

ldng•2mo ago

Is that de Chrome-only webapp ? Does not seem to work with Firefox.

nexusgrj•2mo ago

nice tool, everyone writing web service with FastAPI should take a try : )

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Visualize FastAPI endpoints with FastAPI-Voyager

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