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# History, Design and Future { #history-design-and-future }

Some time ago, <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/issues/3#issuecomment-454956920" class="external-link" target="_blank">a **FastAPI** user asked</a>:

> What’s the history of this project? It seems to have come from nowhere to awesome in a few weeks [...]

Here's a little bit of that history.

## Alternatives { #alternatives }

Asynchronous code just means that the language 💬 has a way to tell the computer / program 🤖 that at some point in the code, it 🤖 will have to wait for *something else* to finish somewhere else. Let's say that *something else* is called "slow-file" 📝.

So, during that time, the computer can go and do some other work, while "slow-file" 📝 finishes.

**FastAPI** provides several tools to help you deal with **Security** easily, rapidly, in a standard way, without having to study and learn all the security specifications.

But first, let's check some small concepts.

## In a hurry? { #in-a-hurry }

If you don't care about any of these terms and you just need to add security with authentication based on username and password *right now*, skip to the next chapters.

# Custom Docs UI Static Assets (Self-Hosting) { #custom-docs-ui-static-assets-self-hosting }

The API docs use **Swagger UI** and **ReDoc**, and each of those need some JavaScript and CSS files.

issue if there is one) requesting the feature and describing specific use cases
for it.

If the feature has merit, it will go through a thorough process of API design
and review. Any code should come after this.

[APIs]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
[issue]: https://github.com/google/guava/issues

Pull requests
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### `HTMLResponse` { #htmlresponse }

Takes some text or bytes and returns an HTML response, as you read above.

### `PlainTextResponse` { #plaintextresponse }

Takes some text or bytes and returns a plain text response.

{* ../../docs_src/custom_response/tutorial005.py hl[2,7,9] *}

### `JSONResponse` { #jsonresponse }

Takes some data and returns an `application/json` encoded response.

They are handled automatically by **FastAPI** and converted to JSON.

///

## Add custom headers { #add-custom-headers }

There are some situations in where it's useful to be able to add custom headers to the HTTP error. For example, for some types of security.

You probably won't need to use it directly in your code.

But in case you needed it for an advanced scenario, you can add custom headers:

 * second invocation, so implementors have made various choices, including:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>returning the same iterator again
 *   <li>throwing an exception of some kind
 *   <li>or the usual, <i>robust</i> behavior, which all known {@link Collection} implementations
 *       have, of returning a new, independent iterator
 * </ul>
 *

**Spoiler alert**: il tutorial - Guida Utente include:

* Dichiarazione di **parameters** da altri posti diversi come: **headers**, **cookies**, **form fields** e **files**.
* Come stabilire **vincoli di validazione** come `maximum_length` o `regex`.