"Programming Language :: Python",
    "Topic :: Internet",
    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks",
    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries",
    "Topic :: Software Development",
    "Typing :: Typed",
    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
    "Environment :: Web Environment",
    "Framework :: AsyncIO",

This is in contrast to the **development** stages, where you are constantly changing the code, breaking it and fixing it, stopping and restarting the development server, etc.

## Deployment Strategies

There are several ways to do it depending on your specific use case and the tools that you use.

    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.")

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**.

  - url: https://www.mongodb.com/developer/languages/python/python-quickstart-fastapi/?utm_campaign=fastapi_framework&utm_source=fastapi_sponsorship&utm_medium=web_referral
    title: Simplify Full Stack Development with FastAPI & MongoDB
    img: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/img/sponsors/mongodb.png
silver:
  - url: https://training.talkpython.fm/fastapi-courses
    title: FastAPI video courses on demand from people you trust

    * So, by using FastAPI you are saving development time, bugs, lines of code, and you would probably get the same performance (or better) you would if you didn't use it (as you would have to implement it all in your code).

# 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`

# About FastAPI versions

**FastAPI** is already being used in production in many applications and systems. And the test coverage is kept at 100%. But its development is still moving quickly.

New features are added frequently, bugs are fixed regularly, and the code is still continuously improving.

When you set up a remote server (a cloud server, a virtual machine, etc.) the simplest thing you can do is to run Uvicorn (or similar) manually, the same way you do when developing locally.

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.

    * `main`: the file `main.py` (the Python "module").
    * `app`: the object created inside of `main.py` with the line `app = FastAPI()`.
    * `--reload`: make the server restart after code changes. Only use for development.

In the output, there's a line with something like:

```hl_lines="4"
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
```