Custom Middleware & Request Processing — Advanced FastAPI Patterns

Learn how to build custom middleware in FastAPI to intercept and process requests and responses, adding headers, logging, and timing information.

What you'll learn

• Understand the middleware execution lifecycle in FastAPI
• Create custom middleware using the @app.middleware decorator
• Add custom response headers for request timing
• Apply middleware patterns for logging and monitoring

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