**FastAPI** provides the same `starlette.staticfiles` as `fastapi.staticfiles` just as a convenience for you, the developer. But it actually comes directly from Starlette.

### What is "Mounting"

"Mounting" means adding a complete "independent" application in a specific path, that then takes care of handling all the sub-paths.

If you need to have two independent FastAPI applications, with their own independent OpenAPI and their own docs UIs, you can have a main app and "mount" one (or more) sub-application(s).

## Mounting a **FastAPI** application

"Mounting" means adding a completely "independent" application in a specific path, that then takes care of handling everything under that path, with the _path operations_ declared in that sub-application.

The `root_path` is a mechanism provided by the ASGI specification (that FastAPI is built on, through Starlette).

The `root_path` is used to handle these specific cases.

And it's also used internally when mounting sub-applications.

## Proxy with a stripped path prefix

import pytest
from fastapi import APIRouter, FastAPI
from fastapi.routing import APIRoute
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
from starlette.routing import Route

app = FastAPI()


class APIRouteA(APIRoute):
    x_type = "A"


class APIRouteB(APIRoute):
    x_type = "B"


class APIRouteC(APIRoute):
    x_type = "C"


router_a = APIRouter(route_class=APIRouteA)
router_b = APIRouter(route_class=APIRouteB)

import time
from typing import Callable

from fastapi import APIRouter, FastAPI, Request, Response
from fastapi.routing import APIRoute


class TimedRoute(APIRoute):
    def get_route_handler(self) -> Callable:
        original_route_handler = super().get_route_handler()

        async def custom_route_handler(request: Request) -> Response:
            before = time.time()
            response: Response = await original_route_handler(request)

    * Aber es bietet Ihnen die Tools zum Erstellen einfacher Webanwendungen, mit Routing basierend auf Pfaden, usw.
    * Wenn Sie Starlette vergleichen, vergleichen Sie es mit Webframeworks (oder Mikroframeworks) wie Sanic, Flask, Django, usw.
* **FastAPI**:

    * Pero te proporciona las herramientas para crear aplicaciones web simples, con <abbr title="también conocido en español como: enrutamiento">routing</abbr> basado en <abbr title="tambien conocido en español como: rutas">paths</abbr>, etc.
    * Si estás comparando Starlette, compáralo con Sanic, Flask, Django, etc. Frameworks web (o microframeworks).
* **FastAPI**:

    * But it provides you the tools to build simple web applications, with routing based on paths, etc.
    * If you are comparing Starlette, compare it against Sanic, Flask, Django, etc. Web frameworks (or microframeworks).
* **FastAPI**:

这样就可以让同一个路由类处理 gzip 压缩的请求或未压缩的请求。

```Python hl_lines="8-15"
{!../../../docs_src/custom_request_and_route/tutorial001.py!}
```

### 创建自定义 `GzipRoute` 类

接下来，创建使用 `GzipRequest` 的 `fastapi.routing.APIRoute  ` 的自定义子类。

此时，这个自定义子类会覆盖 `APIRoute.get_route_handler()`。

`APIRoute.get_route_handler()` 方法返回的是函数，并且返回的函数接收请求并返回响应。

本例用它根据原始请求创建 `GzipRequest`。

```Python hl_lines="18-26"

from pydantic import BaseModel, create_model
from pydantic.fields import FieldInfo
from typing_extensions import Literal

if TYPE_CHECKING:  # pragma: nocover
    from .routing import APIRoute

# Cache for `create_cloned_field`
_CLONED_TYPES_CACHE: MutableMapping[
    Type[BaseModel], Type[BaseModel]
] = WeakKeyDictionary()