## 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.

### Top-level application

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

application/mac-binhex40       hqx              # Macintosh binhexed archives
application/mspowerpoint       ppt              # Microsoft Powerpoint
application/msword             doc              # Microsoft Word
application/octet-stream       bin exe ani      # Binary File
application/oda                oda
application/pagemaker          pm5 pt5 pm       # PageMaker
application/pdf                pdf              # Adobe Acrobat

The client will get a **500 Internal Server Error** for that request, but the application will continue working for the next requests instead of just crashing completely.

### Bigger Errors - Crashes

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

### What is "Mounting"

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

This is different from using an `APIRouter` as a mounted application is completely independent. The OpenAPI and docs from your main application won't include anything from the mounted application, etc.

[19511] [INFO] Started server process [19511]
[19511] [INFO] Waiting for application startup.
[19511] [INFO] Application startup complete.
[19513] [INFO] Started server process [19513]
[19513] [INFO] Waiting for application startup.
[19513] [INFO] Application startup complete.
[19514] [INFO] Started server process [19514]
[19514] [INFO] Waiting for application startup.
[19514] [INFO] Application startup complete.
[19515] [INFO] Started server process [19515]

# Déploiement

Le déploiement d'une application **FastAPI** est relativement simple.

## Que signifie le déploiement

**Déployer** une application signifie effectuer les étapes nécessaires pour la rendre **disponible pour les
utilisateurs**.

Pour une **API Web**, cela implique normalement de la placer sur une **machine distante**, avec un **programme serveur**

running on the server (the machine, host, etc.) and **managing all the HTTPS parts**: receiving the **encrypted HTTPS requests**, sending the **decrypted HTTP requests** to the actual HTTP application running in the same server (the **FastAPI** application, in this case), take the **HTTP response** from the application, **encrypt it** using the appropriate **HTTPS certificate** and sending it back to the client using **HTTPS**. This server is often called a **<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TL...

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:

=== "Python 3.9+"

    ```Python hl_lines="16"

plugins {
  kotlin("jvm")
  application
}

application {
  mainClass.set("okhttp3.sample.Crawler")
}

dependencies {
  implementation(projects.okhttp)
  implementation(libs.jsoup)
}

tasks.compileJava {
  options.isWarnings = false

    * A les meilleures performances, étant donné qu'il n'a pas beaucoup de code mis-à-part le serveur en lui-même.
    * On n'écrit pas une application avec uniquement Uvicorn. Cela signifie que le code devrait inclure plus ou moins, au minimum, tout le code offert par Starlette (ou **FastAPI**). Et si on fait cela, l'application finale apportera les mêmes complications que si on avait utilisé un framework et que l'on avait minimisé la quantité de code et de bugs.