### Top-level application { #top-level-application }

First, create the main, top-level, **FastAPI** application, and its *path operations*:

{* ../../docs_src/sub_applications/tutorial001.py hl[3, 6:8] *}

### Sub-application { #sub-application }

Then, create your sub-application, and its *path operations*.

### Bigger Errors - Crashes { #bigger-errors-crashes }

Nevertheless, there might be cases where we write some code that **crashes the entire application** making Uvicorn and Python crash. 💥

     <span style="background-color:#007166"><font color="#D3D7CF"> INFO </font></span>  Waiting for application startup.
     <span style="background-color:#007166"><font color="#D3D7CF"> INFO </font></span>  Application startup complete.

# Bigger Applications - Multiple Files { #bigger-applications-multiple-files }

If you are building an application or a web API, it's rarely the case that you can put everything in a single file.

**FastAPI** provides a convenience tool to structure your application while keeping all the flexibility.

/// info

If you come from Flask, this would be the equivalent of Flask's Blueprints.

///

## An example file structure { #an-example-file-structure }

        assertContentType("application/msword", "test/text1.txt", "hoge.doc");
        assertContentType("application/msword", "extractor/msoffice/test.doc", "hoge.doc");
        assertContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel", "test/text1.txt", "hoge.xls");
        assertContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel", "extractor/msoffice/test.xls", "hoge.xls");
        assertContentType("application/vnd.ms-powerpoint", "test/text1.txt", "hoge.ppt");

     <span style="background-color:#007166"><font color="#D3D7CF"> INFO </font></span>  Waiting for application startup.
     <span style="background-color:#007166"><font color="#D3D7CF"> INFO </font></span>  Waiting for application startup.
     <span style="background-color:#007166"><font color="#D3D7CF"> INFO </font></span>  Waiting for application startup.

## HTTPX { #httpx }

Even if your **FastAPI** application uses normal `def` functions instead of `async def`, it is still an `async` application underneath.

For some types of applications you might want to add dependencies to the whole application.

Similar to the way you can [add `dependencies` to the *path operation decorators*](dependencies-in-path-operation-decorators.md){.internal-link target=_blank}, you can add them to the `FastAPI` application.

In that case, they will be applied to all the *path operations* in the application:

    * Will have the best performance, as it doesn't have much extra code apart from the server itself.
    * You wouldn't write an application in Uvicorn directly. That would mean that your code would have to include more or less, at least, all the code provided by Starlette (or **FastAPI**). And if you did that, your final application would have the same overhead as having used a framework and minimizing your app code and bugs.

* **Starlette** :
    * A les seconde meilleures performances après Uvicorn. Starlette utilise en réalité Uvicorn. De ce fait, il ne peut qu’être plus "lent" qu'Uvicorn car il requiert l'exécution de plus de code.
    * Cependant il nous apporte les outils pour construire une application web simple, avec un routage basé sur des chemins, etc.