**FastAPI <abbr title="command line interface">CLI</abbr>** is a command line program that you can use to serve your FastAPI app, manage your FastAPI project, and more.

When you install FastAPI (e.g. with `pip install "fastapi[standard]"`), it comes with a command line program you can run in the terminal.

To run your FastAPI app for development, you can use the `fastapi dev` command:

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[builder][held_certificate_builder] to create a self-signed certificate that a test server can use
for HTTPS:

```java
HeldCertificate localhostCertificate = new HeldCertificate.Builder()
    .addSubjectAlternativeName("localhost")
    .build();
```

[`HandshakeCertificates`][handshake_certificates] keeps the certificates for a TLS handshake.

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### Non-async *path operation functions* { #non-async-path-operation-functions }

You can also use regular `def` functions (without `async`), and use `yield` the same way.

FastAPI will make sure it's run correctly so that it doesn't block the event loop.

As in this case the function is not async, the right return type would be `Iterable[Item]`:

{* ../../docs_src/server_sent_events/tutorial001_py310.py ln[28:31] hl[29] *}