# Development - Contributing

First, you might want to see the basic ways to [help FastAPI and get help](help-fastapi.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Developing

If you already cloned the <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi" class="external-link" target="_blank">fastapi repository</a> and you want to deep dive in the code, here are some guidelines to set up your environment.

### Virtual environment with `venv`

                is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
                be `None`.

                This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

                It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
                provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, with OAuth2
                or in a cookie).
                """

                is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
                be `None`.

                This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

                It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be
                provided in one of multiple optional ways (for example, in HTTP Basic
                authentication or in an HTTP Bearer token).

    * This is particularly important for **security**, we'll see more of that below.

## `response_model` Parameter

There are some cases where you need or want to return some data that is not exactly what the type declares.

And it shows their true commitment to FastAPI and its **community** (you), as they not only want to provide you a **good service** but also want to make sure you have a **good and healthy framework**, FastAPI. 🙇

For example, you might want to try <a href="https://speakeasyapi.dev/?utm_source=fastapi+repo&utm_medium=github+sponsorship" class="external-link" target="_blank">Speakeasy</a>.

By default, **FastAPI** will create a `server` in the OpenAPI schema with the URL for the `root_path`.

But you can also provide other alternative `servers`, for example if you want *the same* docs UI to interact with a staging and production environments.

➡️ 💬 👆 💚 🚮 ✍ 🇭🇹, & ⚫️ 🚫 📤 🩺.

✅ 🔗 ⚪️➡️ 🔛, 📟 "🇭🇹" `ht`.

⏭ 🔁 🏃 ✍ 🏗 🆕 ✍ 📁:

<div class="termy">

```console
// Use the command new-lang, pass the language code as a CLI argument
$ python ./scripts/docs.py new-lang ht

Successfully initialized: docs/ht
Updating ht
Updating en
```

</div>

🔜 👆 💪 ✅ 👆 📟 👨‍🎨 ⏳ ✍ 📁 `docs/ht/`.

!!! tip

    {!> ../../../docs_src/body_nested_models/tutorial003.py!}
    ```

Jetzt, selbst wenn Sie einen Request mit duplizierten Daten erhalten, werden diese zu einem Set eindeutiger Dinge konvertiert.

Und wann immer Sie diese Daten ausgeben, selbst wenn die Quelle Duplikate hatte, wird es als Set von eindeutigen Dingen ausgegeben.

Und es wird entsprechend annotiert/dokumentiert.

## Verschachtelte Modelle

    lang_to_discussion_map: Dict[str, AllDiscussionsDiscussionNode] = {}
    for discussion in discussions:
        for edge in discussion.labels.edges:
            label = edge.node.name
            if label.startswith("lang-") and not label == lang_all_label:
                lang = label[5:]
                lang_to_discussion_map[lang] = discussion
    logging.debug(f"Using translations map: {lang_to_discussion_map}")

## Previous Steps Before Starting

There are many cases where you want to perform some steps **before starting** your application.

For example, you might want to run **database migrations**.

But in most cases, you will want to perform these steps only **once**.

So, you will want to have a **single process** to perform those **previous steps**, before starting the application.