from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/users")
async def read_users():
    return ["Rick", "Morty"]


@app.get("/users")
async def read_users2():

If you use a `requirements.txt` file you could specify the version with:

```txt
fastapi==0.45.0
```

that would mean that you would use exactly the version `0.45.0`.

Or you could also pin it with:

```txt
fastapi>=0.45.0,<0.46.0
```

that would mean that you would use the versions `0.45.0` or above, but less than `0.46.0`, for example, a version `0.45.2` would still be accepted.

        include_in_schema: bool = True,
        json_schema_extra: Union[Dict[str, Any], None] = None,
        **extra: Any,
    ):
        if example is not _Unset:
            warnings.warn(
                "`example` has been deprecated, please use `examples` instead",
                category=DeprecationWarning,
                stacklevel=4,
            )
        self.example = example
        self.include_in_schema = include_in_schema

* **Uvicorn**:
    * Will have the best performance, as it doesn't have much extra code apart from the server itself.

# Using Dataclasses

FastAPI is built on top of **Pydantic**, and I have been showing you how to use Pydantic models to declare requests and responses.

But FastAPI also supports using <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html" class="external-link" target="_blank">`dataclasses`</a> the same way:

```Python hl_lines="1  7-12  19-20"
{!../../../docs_src/dataclasses/tutorial001.py!}
```

What inspired **FastAPI**, how it compares to alternatives and what it learned from them.

## Intro

**FastAPI** wouldn't exist if not for the previous work of others.

There have been many tools created before that have helped inspire its creation.

I have been avoiding the creation of a new framework for several years. First I tried to solve all the features covered by **FastAPI** using many different frameworks, plug-ins, and tools.

browser("Browser")
proxy["Proxy on http://0.0.0.0:9999/api/v1/app"]
server["Server on http://127.0.0.1:8000/app"]

browser --> proxy
proxy --> server
```

!!! tip
    The IP `0.0.0.0` is commonly used to mean that the program listens on all the IPs available in that machine/server.

The docs UI would also need the OpenAPI schema to declare that this API `server` is located at `/api/v1` (behind the proxy). For example:

This schema definition includes your API paths, the possible parameters they take, etc.

#### Data "schema"

The term "schema" might also refer to the shape of some data, like a JSON content.

In that case, it would mean the JSON attributes, and data types they have, etc.

#### OpenAPI and JSON Schema

* Review Pull Requests, [especially important for translations](contributing.md#translations){.internal-link target=_blank}.

A round of applause to them. 👏 🙇

## FastAPI Experts

These are the users that have been [helping others the most with questions in GitHub](help-fastapi.md#help-others-with-questions-in-github){.internal-link target=_blank}. 🙇

They have proven to be **FastAPI Experts** by helping many others. ✨

!!! tip

# Using the Request Directly

Up to now, you have been declaring the parts of the request that you need with their types.

Taking data from:

* The path as parameters.
* Headers.
* Cookies.
* etc.

And by doing so, **FastAPI** is validating that data, converting it and generating documentation for your API automatically.

But there are situations where you might need to access the `Request` object directly.