!!! info "`@decorator` Info"
    That `@something` syntax in Python is called a "decorator".

    You put it on top of a function. Like a pretty decorative hat (I guess that's where the term came from).

    A "decorator" takes the function below and does something with it.

    In our case, this decorator tells **FastAPI** that the function below corresponds to the **path** `/` with an **operation** `get`.

### Outras funções de utilidade

Qualquer outra função de utilidade que você chame diretamente pode ser criada com `def` normal ou `async def` e o FastAPI não irá afetar o modo como você a chama.

Isso está em contraste às funções que o FastAPI chama para você: *funções de operação de rota* e dependências.

!!! info

* <a href="https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui" class="external-link" target="_blank"><strong>Swagger UI</strong></a>, com navegação interativa, chame e teste sua API diretamente do navegador.

![Interação Swagger UI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/img/index/index-03-swagger-02.png)

        That's a lot of work they are doing, but if more FastAPI users came to help others like them just a little bit more, it would be much less effort for them (and you and me 😅).

        By asking questions in a structured way (following this) it will be much easier to help you.

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Again, these are very technical details that would probably be useful if you came searching for them.