# How To - Recipes

Here you will see different recipes or "how to" guides for **several topics**.

Most of these ideas would be more or less **independent**, and in most cases you should only need to study them if they apply directly to **your project**.

If something seems interesting and useful to your project, go ahead and check it, but otherwise, you might probably just skip them.

!!! tip

But in most of the cases where we need to do something like this, we want the model just to **filter/remove** some of the data as in this example.

* It takes each **request** that comes to your application.
* It can then do something to that **request** or run any needed code.
* Then it passes the **request** to be processed by the rest of the application (by some *path operation*).
* It then takes the **response** generated by the application (by some *path operation*).

# Génération de projets - Modèle

Vous pouvez utiliser un générateur de projet pour commencer, qui réalisera pour vous la mise en place de bases côté architecture globale, sécurité, base de données et premières routes d'API.

Un générateur de projet fera toujours une mise en place très subjective que vous devriez modifier et adapter suivant vos besoins, mais cela reste un bon point de départ pour vos projets.

## Full Stack FastAPI PostgreSQL

In these cases you can use `root_path` to configure your 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

    * So, by using FastAPI you are saving development time, bugs, lines of code, and you would probably get the same performance (or better) you would...

## Client and SDK Generators - Sponsor

There are also some **company-backed** Client and SDK generators based on OpenAPI (FastAPI), in some cases they can offer you **additional features** on top of high-quality generated SDKs/clients.

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## Dataclasses in Nested Data Structures

You can also combine `dataclasses` with other type annotations to make nested data structures.

In some cases, you might still have to use Pydantic's version of `dataclasses`. For example, if you have errors with the automatically generated API documentation.

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`app.add_middleware()` receives a middleware class as the first argument and any additional arguments to be passed to the middleware.

## Integrated middlewares

**FastAPI** includes several middlewares for common use cases, we'll see next how to use them.

!!! note "Technical Details"
    For the next examples, you could also use `from starlette.middleware.something import SomethingMiddleware`.

You can combine normal FastAPI *path operations* with GraphQL on the same application.

!!! tip
    **GraphQL** solves some very specific use cases.

    It has **advantages** and **disadvantages** when compared to common **web APIs**.

    Make sure you evaluate if the **benefits** for your use case compensate the **drawbacks**. 🤓

## GraphQL Libraries