# First Steps

The simplest FastAPI file could look like this:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/first_steps/tutorial001.py!}
```

Copy that to a file `main.py`.

Run the live server:

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```console
$ <font color="#4E9A06">fastapi</font> dev <u style="text-decoration-style:single">main.py</u>
<font color="#3465A4">INFO    </font> Using path <font color="#3465A4">main.py</font>

But if you want to directly use **Trio**, then you can use **Hypercorn** as it supports it. ✨

### Install Hypercorn with Trio

First you need to install Hypercorn with Trio support:

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```console
$ pip install "hypercorn[trio]"
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```

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### Run with Trio

    * If you depended on that previous behavior, you might need to update your code. As always, make sure your tests pass before merging the upgrade.

## 0.90.1

### Upgrades

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"_If anyone is looking to build a production Python API, I would highly recommend **FastAPI**. It is **beautifully designed**, **simple to use** and **highly scalable**, it has become a **key component** in our API first development strategy and is driving many automations and services such as our Virtual TAC Engineer._"

    * This will be done by sending a POST request (from *your API*) to some *external API* provided by that external developer (this is the "callback").

## The normal **FastAPI** app

Let's first see how the normal API app would look like before adding the callback.

It will have a *path operation* that will receive an `Invoice` body, and a query parameter `callback_url` that will contain the URL for the callback.

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    - tutorial/path-params-numeric-validations.md

#### `lru_cache` Technical Details

`@lru_cache` modifies the function it decorates to return the same value that was returned the first time, instead of computing it again, executing the code of the function every time.

# WebSockets

You can use <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_API" class="external-link" target="_blank">WebSockets</a> with **FastAPI**.

## Install `WebSockets`

First you need to install `WebSockets`:

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```console
$ pip install websockets

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```

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## WebSockets client

### In production

Using it in your editor is what really shows you the benefits of FastAPI, seeing how little code you have to write, all the type checks, autocompletion, etc.

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## Install FastAPI

The first step is to install FastAPI:

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```console
$ pip install fastapi

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```

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!!! note

    This is where we'll put the `requirements.txt` file and the `app` directory.

3. Copy the file with the requirements to the `/code` directory.

    Copy **only** the file with the requirements first, not the rest of the code.

    As this file **doesn't change often**, Docker will detect it and use the **cache** for this step, enabling the cache for the next step too.