But that will only allow certain types of communication, excluding everything that involves credentials: Cookies, Authorization headers like those used with Bearer Tokens, etc.

So, for everything to work correctly, it's better to specify explicitly the allowed origins.

## Use `CORSMiddleware`

You can configure it in your **FastAPI** application using the `CORSMiddleware`.

* Import `CORSMiddleware`.

    permissions:
      pull-requests: read
    # Set job outputs to values from filter step
    outputs:
      docs: ${{ steps.filter.outputs.docs }}
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    # For pull requests it's not necessary to checkout the code but for master it is
    - uses: dorny/paths-filter@v3
      id: filter
      with:
        filters: |
          docs:
            - README.md

    class Config:
        orm_mode = True
        getter_dict = PeeweeGetterDict


class UserBase(BaseModel):
    email: str


class UserCreate(UserBase):
    password: str


class User(UserBase):
    id: int
    is_active: bool
    items: List[Item] = []

    class Config:
        orm_mode = True

from sqlalchemy.orm import Session

from . import models, schemas


def get_user(db: Session, user_id: int):
    return db.query(models.User).filter(models.User.id == user_id).first()


def get_user_by_email(db: Session, email: str):
    return db.query(models.User).filter(models.User.email == email).first()


def get_users(db: Session, skip: int = 0, limit: int = 100):
    return db.query(models.User).offset(skip).limit(limit).all()

For example, imagine that you want to return an HTTP status code of "OK" `200` by default.

But if the data didn't exist, you want to create it, and return an HTTP status code of "CREATED" `201`.

But you still want to be able to filter and convert the data you return with a `response_model`.

For those cases, you can use a `Response` parameter.

## Use a `Response` parameter

!!! note
    FastAPI will know that the value of `q` is not required because of the default value `= None`.

    The `Union` in `Union[str, None]` is not used by FastAPI, but will allow your editor to give you better support and detect errors.

## Without Pydantic

Nevertheless, as of now, Uvicorn's capabilities for handling worker processes are more limited than Gunicorn's. So, if you want to have a process manager at this level (at the Python level), then it might be better to try with Gunicorn as the process manager.

In any case, you would run it like this:

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```console
$ uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --workers 4