The command `fastapi dev` reads your `main.py` file, detects the **FastAPI** app in it, and starts a server using <a href="https://www.uvicorn.org" class="external-link" target="_blank">Uvicorn</a>.

By default, `fastapi dev` will start with auto-reload enabled for local development.

You can read more about it in the <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/fastapi-cli/" target="_blank">FastAPI CLI docs</a>.

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    If not provided, it's `None` by default, here we provide `"World"` as the default value to use.

Then you could call that Python program:

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```console
// Here we don't set the env var yet
$ python main.py

// As we didn't set the env var, we get the default value

Hello World from Python

                """
            ),
        ] = None,
        auto_error: Annotated[
            bool,
            Doc(
                """
                By default, if the query parameter is not provided, `APIKeyQuery` will
                automatically cancel the request and send the client an error.

                If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the query parameter is not

The first step is to install FastAPI:

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```console
$ pip install fastapi

---> 100%
```

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!!! note
    When you install with `pip install fastapi` it comes with some default optional standard dependencies.

    If you don't want to have those optional dependencies, you can instead install `pip install fastapi-slim`.

## Advanced User Guide

The command `fastapi dev` reads your `main.py` file, detects the **FastAPI** app in it, and starts a server using <a href="https://www.uvicorn.org" class="external-link" target="_blank">Uvicorn</a>.

By default, `fastapi dev` will start with auto-reload enabled for local development.

You can read more about it in the <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/fastapi-cli/" target="_blank">FastAPI CLI docs</a>.

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