They are, more or less, at opposite ends, complementing each other.

Requests has a very simple and intuitive design, it's very easy to use, with sensible defaults. But at the same time, it's very powerful and customizable.

That's why, as said in the official website:

> Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages of all time

The way you use it is very simple. For example, to do a `GET` request, you would write:

```Python

<div class="termy">

```console
$ python -m pip install --upgrade pip

---> 100%
```

</div>

!!! tip
    Every time you install a new package with `pip` under that environment, activate the environment again.

# Middleware

You can add middleware to **FastAPI** applications.

A "middleware" is a function that works with every **request** before it is processed by any specific *path operation*. And also with every **response** before returning it.

* It takes each **request** that comes to your application.
* It can then do something to that **request** or run any needed code.

In this case, it might not be a problem, because it's the same user sending the password.

But if we use the same model for another *path operation*, we could be sending our user's passwords to every client.

!!! danger
    Never store the plain password of a user or send it in a response like this, unless you know all the caveats and you know what you are doing.

## Add an output model

* **JWT-Token**-Authentifizierung.
* **SQLAlchemy**-Modelle (unabhängig von Flask-Erweiterungen, sodass sie direkt mit Celery-Workern verwendet werden können).
* Grundlegende Startmodelle für Benutzer (ändern und entfernen Sie nach Bedarf).
* **Alembic**-Migrationen.
* **CORS** (Cross Origin Resource Sharing).
* **Celery**-Worker, welche Modelle und Code aus dem Rest des Backends selektiv importieren und verwenden können.

* Modelos **SQLAlchemy** (independente de extensões Flask, para que eles possam ser usados com _workers_ Celery diretamente).
* Modelos básicos para usuários (modifique e remova conforme suas necessidades).
* Migrações **Alembic**.
* **CORS** (_Cross Origin Resource Sharing_ - Compartilhamento de Recursos Entre Origens).
* _Worker_ **Celery** que pode importar e usar modelos e códigos do resto do _backend_ seletivamente.

* Modèle de démarrages basiques pour les utilisateurs (à modifier et supprimer au besoin).
* Migrations **Alembic**.
* **CORS** (partage des ressources entre origines multiples, ou *Cross Origin Resource Sharing*).
* *Worker* **Celery** pouvant importer et utiliser les modèles et le code du reste du backend.

これらは、より複雑な構成、RabbitMQ や Redis などのメッセージ/ジョブキューマネージャーを必要とする傾向がありますが、複数のプロセス、特に複数のサーバーでバックグラウンドタスクを実行できます。

例を確認するには、[Project Generators](../project-generation.md){.internal-link target=_blank} を参照してください。これらにはすべて、Celery が構築済みです。

# GraphQL

As **FastAPI** is based on the **ASGI** standard, it's very easy to integrate any **GraphQL** library also compatible with ASGI.

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**.

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

A common tool is <a href="https://openapi-generator.tech/" class="external-link" target="_blank">OpenAPI Generator</a>.

If you are building a **frontend**, a very interesting alternative is <a href="https://github.com/hey-api/openapi-ts" class="external-link" target="_blank">openapi-ts</a>.

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