One particular advantage that is not necessarily obvious is that you can **generate clients** (sometimes called <abbr title="Software Development Kits">**SDKs**</abbr> ) for your API, for many different **programming languages**.

## OpenAPI Client Generators

There are many tools to generate clients from **OpenAPI**.

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<font color="#3465A4">INFO    </font> Using import string <font color="#8AE234"><b>main:app</b></font>

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# Development - Contributing

First, you might want to see the basic ways to [help FastAPI and get help](help-fastapi.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Developing

If you already cloned the <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi" class="external-link" target="_blank">fastapi repository</a> and you want to deep dive in the code, here are some guidelines to set up your environment.

### Virtual environment with `venv`

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

But if your connection to the server is lost, the **running process** will probably die.

⤴️ 👆 💪 🍦 👈 ⏮️ 📋 `serve`:

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```console
// Use the command "serve" after running "build-all"
$ python ./scripts/docs.py serve

Warning: this is a very simple server. For development, use mkdocs serve instead.
This is here only to preview a site with translations already built.
Make sure you run the build-all command first.
Serving at: http://127.0.0.1:8008
```

</div>

## 💯

    A quick server to preview a built site with translations.

    For development, prefer the command live (or just mkdocs serve).

    This is here only to preview a site with translations already built.

    Make sure you run the build-all command first.
    """
    typer.echo("Warning: this is a very simple server.")
    typer.echo("For development, use the command live instead.")

$ fastapi dev main.py

 ╭────────── FastAPI CLI - Development mode ───────────╮
 │                                                     │
 │  Serving at: http://127.0.0.1:8000                  │
 │                                                     │
 │  API docs: http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs               │
 │                                                     │
 │  Running in development mode, for production use:   │

$ fastapi dev main.py

 ╭────────── FastAPI CLI - Development mode ───────────╮
 │                                                     │
 │  Serving at: http://127.0.0.1:8000                  │
 │                                                     │
 │  API docs: http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs               │
 │                                                     │
 │  Running in development mode, for production use:   │

        "top_reviewers": top_reviewers,
        "top_translations_reviewers": top_translations_reviewers,
    }
    github_sponsors = {
        "sponsors": sponsors,
    }
    # For local development
    # people_path = Path("../../../../docs/en/data/people.yml")
    people_path = Path("./docs/en/data/people.yml")
    github_sponsors_path = Path("./docs/en/data/github_sponsors.yml")

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```console
// Use o comando "serve" após rodar "build-all"
$ python ./scripts/docs.py serve

Warning: this is a very simple server. For development, use mkdocs serve instead.
This is here only to preview a site with translations already built.
Make sure you run the build-all command first.
Serving at: http://127.0.0.1:8008
```

</div>

## Testes