# 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:

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```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>

### In a Remote Server

When you set up a remote server (a cloud server, a virtual machine, etc.) the simplest thing you can do is to use `fastapi run`, Uvicorn (or similar) manually, the same way you do when developing locally.

And it will work and will be useful **during development**.

If you can use the **latest versions of Python**, use the examples for the latest version, those will have the **best and simplest syntax**, for example, "**Python 3.10+**".

#### List

For example, let's define a variable to be a `list` of `str`.

=== "Python 3.9+"

    Declare the variable, with the same colon (`:`) syntax.

This, of course, is not optimal and you wouldn't use it for production.

In production you would have one of the options above.

But it's the simplest way to focus on the server-side of WebSockets and have a working example:

```Python hl_lines="2  6-38  41-43"
{!../../../docs_src/websockets/tutorial001.py!}
```

## Create a `websocket`

# HTTP Basic Auth

For the simplest cases, you can use HTTP Basic Auth.

In HTTP Basic Auth, the application expects a header that contains a username and a password.

If it doesn't receive it, it returns an HTTP 401 "Unauthorized" error.

And returns a header `WWW-Authenticate` with a value of `Basic`, and an optional `realm` parameter.

That tells the browser to show the integrated prompt for a username and password.