* Then it returns the **response**.

!!! note "Technical Details"
    If you have dependencies with `yield`, the exit code will run *after* the middleware.

    If there were any background tasks (documented later), they will run *after* all the middleware.

## Create a middleware

To create a middleware you use the decorator `@app.middleware("http")` on top of a function.

# Background Tasks - `BackgroundTasks`

You can declare a parameter in a *path operation function* or dependency function with the type `BackgroundTasks`, and then you can use it to schedule the execution of background tasks after the response is sent.

You can import it directly from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import BackgroundTasks
```

    This makes sure that if you use a terminal program installed by that package, you use the one from your local environment and not any other that could be installed globally.

### Install requirements using pip

After activating the environment as described above:

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```console
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

---> 100%
```

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    * If you are comparing Uvicorn, compare it against Daphne, Hypercorn, uWSGI, etc. Application servers.
* **Starlette**:
    * Will have the next best performance, after Uvicorn. In fact, Starlette uses Uvicorn to run. So, it probably can only get "slower" than Uvicorn by having to execute more code.
    * But it provides you the tools to build simple web applications, with routing based on paths, etc.

  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "",
  "devDependencies": {
    "@hey-api/openapi-ts": "^0.27.38",
    "typescript": "^4.6.2"
  }
}
```

After having that NPM `generate-client` script there, you can run it with:

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```console
$ npm run generate-client

frontend-app@1.0.0 generate-client /home/user/code/frontend-app

You could want to set up a different database for testing, rollback the data after the tests, pre-fill it with some testing data, etc.

The main idea is exactly the same you saw in that previous chapter.

## Add tests for the SQL app

### Flask REST frameworks

There are several Flask REST frameworks, but after investing the time and work into investigating them, I found that many are discontinued or abandoned, with several standing issues that made them unfit.

## Run it

After that, you just need to install `pytest`:

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```console
$ pip install pytest

---> 100%
```

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    # TODO: remove after upgrading SQLAlchemy to a version that includes the following changes
    # https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/commit/59521abcc0676e936b31a523bd968fc157fef0c2
    'ignore:datetime\.datetime\.utcfromtimestamp\(\) is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version\..*:DeprecationWarning:sqlalchemy',

    * For this to work, a **single** component (program) running on the server, listening on the **public IP address**, must have **all the HTTPS certificates** in the server.
* **After** obtaining a secure connection, the communication protocol is **still HTTP**.
    * The contents are **encrypted**, even though they are being sent with the **HTTP protocol**.