# Full Stack FastAPI Template { #full-stack-fastapi-template }

Templates, while typically come with a specific setup, are designed to be flexible and customizable. This allows you to modify and adapt them to your project's requirements, making them an excellent starting point. 🏁

You can use this template to get started, as it includes a lot of the initial set up, security, database and some API endpoints already done for you.

They are, more or less, at opposite ends, complementing each other.

Requests has a very simple and intuitive design, it's very easy to use, with sensible defaults. But at the same time, it's very powerful and customizable.

That's why, as said in the official website:

> Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages of all time

The way you use it is very simple. For example, to do a `GET` request, you would write:

* 👷 Run Smokeshow always, even on test failures. PR [#14538](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14538) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
* 👷 Make Pydantic versions customizable in CI. PR [#14535](https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/pull/14535) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).