But when checking benchmarks and comparisons you should keep the following in mind.

## Benchmarks and speed

When you check the benchmarks, it is common to see several tools of different types compared as equivalent.

Specifically, to see Uvicorn, Starlette and FastAPI compared together (among many other tools).

It was created to generate the HTML in the backend, not to create APIs used by a modern frontend (like React, Vue.js and Angular) or by other systems (like <abbr title="Internet of Things">IoT</abbr> devices) communicating with it.

            Doc(
                """
                This will be filled by FastAPI.
                """
            ),
        ] = None,
    ):
        self.scopes: Annotated[
            List[str],
            Doc(
                """
                The list of all the scopes required by dependencies.
                """
            ),
        ] = scopes or []

# Behind a Proxy

In some situations, you might need to use a **proxy** server like Traefik or Nginx with a configuration that adds an extra path prefix that is not seen by your application.

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.

    ] = None,
    *,
    use_cache: Annotated[
        bool,
        Doc(
            """
            By default, after a dependency is called the first time in a request, if
            the dependency is declared again for the rest of the request (for example
            if the dependency is needed by several dependencies), the value will be
            re-used for the rest of the request.

* Add a **JSON Schema** for the response, in the OpenAPI *path operation*.
    * This will be used by the **automatic docs**.
    * It will also be used by automatic client code generation tools.

But most importantly:

* It will **limit and filter** the output data to what is defined in the return type.

# Path Parameters

You can declare path "parameters" or "variables" with the same syntax used by Python format strings:

```Python hl_lines="6-7"
{!../../../docs_src/path_params/tutorial001.py!}
```

The value of the path parameter `item_id` will be passed to your function as the argument `item_id`.

class HTTPAuthorizationCredentials(BaseModel):
    """
    The HTTP authorization credentials in the result of using `HTTPBearer` or
    `HTTPDigest` in a dependency.

    The HTTP authorization header value is split by the first space.

    The first part is the `scheme`, the second part is the `credentials`.

    For example, in an HTTP Bearer token scheme, the client will send a header
    like:

    ```

```

### Interactive API docs

Now go to <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs" class="external-link" target="_blank">http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs</a>.

You will see the automatic interactive API documentation (provided by <a href="https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui" class="external-link" target="_blank">Swagger UI</a>):

![Swagger UI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/img/index/index-01-swagger-ui-simple.png)

### Alternative API docs

    with pytest.raises(InternalError) as exc_info:
        client.get("/items/portal-gun")
    assert (
        exc_info.value.args[0] == "The portal gun is too dangerous to be owned by Rick"
    )


def test_internal_server_error():
    from docs_src.dependencies.tutorial008d_an import app

    client = TestClient(app, raise_server_exceptions=False)
    response = client.get("/items/portal-gun")