Another big feature required by APIs is <abbr title="reading and converting to Python data">parsing</abbr> data from incoming requests.

Webargs is a tool that was made to provide that on top of several frameworks, including Flask.

It uses Marshmallow underneath to do the data validation. And it was created by the same developers.

It's a great tool and I have used it a lot too, before having **FastAPI**.

        "three_months_experts": three_months_experts,
        "six_months_experts": six_months_experts,
        "one_year_experts": one_year_experts,
        "top_contributors": top_contributors,
        "top_reviewers": top_reviewers,
        "top_translations_reviewers": top_translations_reviewers,
    }
    github_sponsors = {
        "sponsors": sponsors,
    }
    # For local development

## Proxy with a stripped path prefix

Having a proxy with a stripped path prefix, in this case, means that you could declare a path at `/app` in your code, but then, you add a layer on top (the proxy) that would put your **FastAPI** application under a path like `/api/v1`.

In this case, the original path `/app` would actually be served at `/api/v1/app`.

## Client and SDK Generators - Sponsor

There are also some **company-backed** Client and SDK generators based on OpenAPI (FastAPI), in some cases they can offer you **additional features** on top of high-quality generated SDKs/clients.

* the path `/`
* using a <abbr title="an HTTP GET method"><code>get</code> operation</abbr>

!!! info "`@decorator` Info"
    That `@something` syntax in Python is called a "decorator".

    You put it on top of a function. Like a pretty decorative hat (I guess that's where the term came from).

    A "decorator" takes the function below and does something with it.

## Star **FastAPI** in GitHub

You can "star" FastAPI in GitHub (clicking the star button at the top right): <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi" class="external-link" target="_blank">https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi</a>. ⭐️

* go to the parent package (the directory `app/`)...
* then go to the parent of that package (there's no parent package, `app` is the top level 😱)...
* and in there, find the module `dependencies` (the file at `app/dependencies.py`)...
* and from it, import the function `get_token_header`.

    title: JWT Authentication with FastAPI and AWS Cognito
  - author: Ankush Thakur
    author_link: https://geekflare.com/author/ankush/
    link: https://geekflare.com/python-asynchronous-web-frameworks/
    title: Top 5 Asynchronous Web Frameworks for Python
  - author: Nico Axtmann
    author_link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nico-axtmann

```Python
def get_settings():
    return Settings()
```

we would create that object for each request, and we would be reading the `.env` file for each request. ⚠️

But as we are using the `@lru_cache` decorator on top, the `Settings` object will be created only once, the first time it's called. ✔️

=== "Python 3.9+"

    ```Python hl_lines="1  11"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/settings/app03_an_py39/main.py!}
    ```

```Dockerfile
COPY ./requirements.txt /code/requirements.txt
```

Docker and other tools **build** these container images **incrementally**, adding **one layer on top of the other**, starting from the top of the `Dockerfile` and adding any files created by each of the instructions of the `Dockerfile`.