# First Steps

The simplest FastAPI file could look like this:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/first_steps/tutorial001.py!}
```

Copy that to a file `main.py`.

Run the live server:

<div class="termy">

```console
$ <font color="#4E9A06">fastapi</font> dev <u style="text-decoration-style:single">main.py</u>
<font color="#3465A4">INFO    </font> Using path <font color="#3465A4">main.py</font>

### Internal

* 🔨 Enable linenums in MkDocs Material during local live development to simplify highlighting code. PR [#9769](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/9769) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

I'll tell you a bit more about these **concepts** here, and that would hopefully give you the **intuition** you would need to decide how to deploy your API in very different environments, possibly even in **future** ones that don't exist yet.

By considering these concepts, you will be able to **evaluate and design** the best way to deploy **your own APIs**.

In the next chapters, I'll give you more **concrete recipes** to deploy FastAPI applications.

### Tested

* 100% <abbr title="The amount of code that is automatically tested">test coverage</abbr>.
* 100% <abbr title="Python type annotations, with this your editor and external tools can give you better support">type annotated</abbr> code base.
* Used in production applications.

## Starlette features