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title: "Guides"
description: "Every guide in FastAPI Docs."
---

# Guides

Every guide in FastAPI Docs.

- [About](./guides/about-index.md)
- [Advanced User Guide](./guides/advanced-user-guide-index.md)
- [Deployment](./guides/deployment-index.md)
- [FastAPI](./guides/fastapi-index.md)
- [Features](./guides/features-index.md)
- [How To - Recipes](./guides/how-to-recipes-index.md)
- [Learn](./guides/learn-index.md)
- [More](./guides/more-index.md)
- [OpenAPI](./guides/openapi-index.md)
- [Reference](./guides/reference-index.md)
- [Release Notes](./guides/release-notes-index.md)
- [Resources](./guides/resources-index.md)
- [Tutorial - User Guide](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-index.md)
- [About FastAPI versions](./guides/deployment-versions.md)
- [Alternatives, Inspiration and Comparisons](./guides/about-alternatives.md)
- [Environment Variables](./guides/more-environment-variables.md)
- [FastAPI People](./guides/resources-fastapi-people.md)
- [FastAPI class](./guides/reference-fastapi.md)
- [First Steps](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-first-steps.md)
- [General - How To - Recipes](./guides/how-to-recipes-general.md)
- [OpenAPI docs](./guides/openapi-docs.md)
- [Python Types Intro](./guides/learn-python-types.md)
- [Stream Data](./guides/advanced-user-guide-stream-data.md)
- [Concurrency and async / await](./guides/learn-async.md)
- [FastAPI Cloud](./guides/deployment-fastapicloud.md)
- [Help](./guides/resources-help-fastapi.md)
- [History, Design and Future](./guides/about-history-design-future.md)
- [Migrate from Pydantic v1 to Pydantic v2](./guides/how-to-recipes-migrate-from-pydantic-v1-to-pydantic-v2.md)
- [OpenAPI models](./guides/openapi-models.md)
- [Path Operation Advanced Configuration](./guides/advanced-user-guide-path-operation-advanced-configuration.md)
- [Path Parameters](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-path-params.md)
- [Request Parameters](./guides/reference-parameters.md)
- [Translation banner](./guides/more-translation-banner.md)
- [About HTTPS](./guides/deployment-https.md)
- [Additional Status Codes](./guides/advanced-user-guide-additional-status-codes.md)
- [Benchmarks](./guides/about-benchmarks.md)
- [Contributing](./guides/resources-contributing.md)
- [FastAPI CLI](./guides/learn-fastapi-cli.md)
- [GraphQL](./guides/how-to-recipes-graphql.md)
- [Query Parameters](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-query-params.md)
- [Status Codes](./guides/reference-status.md)
- [Virtual Environments](./guides/more-virtual-environments.md)
- [Custom Request and APIRoute class](./guides/how-to-recipes-custom-request-and-route.md)
- [Editor Support](./guides/learn-editor-support.md)
- [Repository Management](./guides/about-management.md)
- [Request Body](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-body.md)
- [Return a Response Directly](./guides/advanced-user-guide-response-directly.md)
- [Run a Server Manually](./guides/deployment-manually.md)
- [Translations](./guides/resources-translations.md)
- [UploadFile class](./guides/reference-uploadfile.md)
- [Conditional OpenAPI](./guides/how-to-recipes-conditional-openapi.md)
- [Custom Response - HTML, Stream, File, others](./guides/advanced-user-guide-custom-response.md)
- [Deployments Concepts](./guides/deployment-concepts.md)
- [Exceptions - HTTPException and WebSocketException](./guides/reference-exceptions.md)
- [Full Stack FastAPI Template](./guides/resources-project-generation.md)
- [Query Parameters and String Validations](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-query-params-str-validations.md)
- [Additional Responses in OpenAPI](./guides/advanced-user-guide-additional-responses.md)
- [Dependencies - Depends() and Security()](./guides/reference-dependencies.md)
- [Deploy FastAPI on Cloud Providers](./guides/deployment-cloud.md)
- [Extending OpenAPI](./guides/how-to-recipes-extending-openapi.md)
- [External Links](./guides/resources-external-links.md)
- [Path Parameters and Numeric Validations](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-path-params-numeric-validations.md)
- [APIRouter class](./guides/reference-apirouter.md)
- [FastAPI and friends newsletter](./guides/resources-newsletter.md)
- [Query Parameter Models](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-query-param-models.md)
- [Response Cookies](./guides/advanced-user-guide-response-cookies.md)
- [Separate OpenAPI Schemas for Input and Output or Not](./guides/how-to-recipes-separate-openapi-schemas.md)
- [Server Workers - Uvicorn with Workers](./guides/deployment-server-workers.md)
- [Background Tasks - BackgroundTasks](./guides/reference-background.md)
- [Body - Multiple Parameters](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-body-multiple-params.md)
- [Custom Docs UI Static Assets (Self-Hosting)](./guides/how-to-recipes-custom-docs-ui-assets.md)
- [FastAPI in Containers - Docker](./guides/deployment-docker.md)
- [Response Headers](./guides/advanced-user-guide-response-headers.md)
- [Body - Fields](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-body-fields.md)
- [Configure Swagger UI](./guides/how-to-recipes-configure-swagger-ui.md)
- [Request class](./guides/reference-request.md)
- [Response - Change Status Code](./guides/advanced-user-guide-response-change-status-code.md)
- [Advanced Dependencies](./guides/advanced-user-guide-advanced-dependencies.md)
- [Body - Nested Models](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-body-nested-models.md)
- [Testing a Database](./guides/how-to-recipes-testing-database.md)
- [WebSockets](./guides/reference-websockets.md)
- [Advanced Security](./guides/advanced-user-guide-security.md)
  - [OAuth2 scopes](./guides/advanced-user-guide-security-oauth2-scopes.md)
  - [HTTP Basic Auth](./guides/advanced-user-guide-security-http-basic-auth.md)
- [Declare Request Example Data](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-schema-extra-example.md)
- [HTTPConnection class](./guides/reference-httpconnection.md)
- [Use Old 403 Authentication Error Status Codes](./guides/how-to-recipes-authentication-error-status-code.md)
- [Extra Data Types](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-extra-data-types.md)
- [Response class](./guides/reference-response.md)
- [Cookie Parameters](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-cookie-params.md)
- [Custom Response Classes - File, HTML, Redirect, Streaming, etc.](./guides/reference-responses.md)
- [Header Parameters](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-header-params.md)
- [Server-Sent Events - EventSourceResponse and ServerSentEvent](./guides/reference-sse.md)
- [Using the Request Directly](./guides/advanced-user-guide-using-request-directly.md)
- [Cookie Parameter Models](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-cookie-param-models.md)
- [Middleware](./guides/reference-middleware.md)
- [Using Dataclasses](./guides/advanced-user-guide-dataclasses.md)
- [Advanced Middleware](./guides/advanced-user-guide-middleware.md)
- [Header Parameter Models](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-header-param-models.md)
- [Security Tools](./guides/reference-security.md)
- [Encoders - jsonable_encoder](./guides/reference-encoders.md)
- [Response Model - Return Type](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-response-model.md)
- [Sub Applications - Mounts](./guides/advanced-user-guide-sub-applications.md)
- [Behind a Proxy](./guides/advanced-user-guide-behind-a-proxy.md)
- [Extra Models](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-extra-models.md)
- [Static Files - StaticFiles](./guides/reference-staticfiles.md)
- [Response Status Code](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-response-status-code.md)
- [Templates](./guides/advanced-user-guide-templates.md)
- [Templating - Jinja2Templates](./guides/reference-templating.md)
- [Form Data](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-request-forms.md)
- [Test Client - TestClient](./guides/reference-testclient.md)
- [WebSockets](./guides/advanced-user-guide-websockets.md)
- [Form Models](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-request-form-models.md)
- [Lifespan Events](./guides/advanced-user-guide-events.md)
- [Request Files](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-request-files.md)
- [Testing WebSockets](./guides/advanced-user-guide-testing-websockets.md)
- [Request Forms and Files](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-request-forms-and-files.md)
- [Testing Events: lifespan and startup - shutdown](./guides/advanced-user-guide-testing-events.md)
- [Handling Errors](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-handling-errors.md)
- [Testing Dependencies with Overrides](./guides/advanced-user-guide-testing-dependencies.md)
- [Async Tests](./guides/advanced-user-guide-async-tests.md)
- [Path Operation Configuration](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-path-operation-configuration.md)
- [JSON Compatible Encoder](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-encoder.md)
- [Settings and Environment Variables](./guides/advanced-user-guide-settings.md)
- [Body - Updates](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-body-updates.md)
- [OpenAPI Callbacks](./guides/advanced-user-guide-openapi-callbacks.md)
- [Dependencies](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-dependencies.md)
  - [Classes as Dependencies](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-dependencies-classes-as-dependencies.md)
  - [Sub-dependencies](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-dependencies-sub-dependencies.md)
  - [Dependencies in path operation decorators](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-dependencies-dependencies-in-path-operation-decorators.md)
  - [Global Dependencies](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-dependencies-global-dependencies.md)
  - [Dependencies with yield](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-dependencies-dependencies-with-yield.md)
- [OpenAPI Webhooks](./guides/advanced-user-guide-openapi-webhooks.md)
- [Including WSGI - Flask, Django, others](./guides/advanced-user-guide-wsgi.md)
- [Generating SDKs](./guides/advanced-user-guide-generate-clients.md)
- [Advanced Python Types](./guides/advanced-user-guide-advanced-python-types.md)
- [JSON with Bytes as Base64](./guides/advanced-user-guide-json-base64-bytes.md)
- [Strict Content-Type Checking](./guides/advanced-user-guide-strict-content-type.md)
- [Security](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-security.md)
  - [Security - First Steps](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-security-first-steps.md)
  - [Get Current User](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-security-get-current-user.md)
  - [Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-security-simple-oauth2.md)
  - [OAuth2 with Password (and hashing), Bearer with JWT tokens](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-security-oauth2-jwt.md)
- [Middleware](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-middleware.md)
- [CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-cors.md)
- [SQL (Relational) Databases](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-sql-databases.md)
- [Bigger Applications - Multiple Files](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-bigger-applications.md)
- [Stream JSON Lines](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-stream-json-lines.md)
- [Server-Sent Events (SSE)](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-server-sent-events.md)
- [Background Tasks](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-background-tasks.md)
- [Metadata and Docs URLs](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-metadata.md)
- [Frontend](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-frontend.md)
- [Static Files](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-static-files.md)
- [Testing](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-testing.md)
- [Debugging](./guides/tutorial-user-guide-debugging.md)

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