What's Next

You built Hero HQ from an empty folder to a deployed, tested, real-time API. The cape is earned. Here's where to go when you want to take a feature deeper than the tutorial did.

You now know how to…

Route requests with @controller and the verb decorators
Validate input with Json[...] / Path[...] and return clean error envelopes
Wire services with dependency injection and the three scopes
Split an app into modules with explicit imports / exports
Guard routes and raise custom, codified errors
Keep per-client state with signed-cookie sessions
Stream with SSE, defer work with background tasks, and go real-time with WebSockets
Test the whole thing in-process, and ship it with clean lifecycle and OpenAPI docs

That's the spine of nearly every Lauren app. The rest is depth.

Go deeper

• Core Concepts

The mental model behind what you just built: modules, controllers, injectables, the strict inheritance rules, lifecycle, and the request/response objects.

• Guides

~30 task-focused recipes — custom extractors, pipes, interceptors, typed streaming, propagate_metadata, OpenAPI security from guards, and more.

• Reference

The full API surface, generated from docstrings — every decorator, extractor, type, and error code.

• Companion packages

lauren-middlewares (CORS, rate limit, …), lauren-logging, and lauren-guards (JWT, API key, OAuth2, CSRF) — production cross-cutting concerns, next door.

Take Hero HQ further

The tutorial kept things in-memory and single-worker so you could focus on the framework. To turn it into a real service, try:

Swap the storage. Put the HeroRepository, MissionLog, and session store behind Redis or Postgres — the interfaces don't change, only the implementations.
Make logout revocable everywhere. The Sessions guide shows how a revocation_store turns "log out" into "log out on every device."
Add real auth. Replace the toy badge with lauren-guards' jwt_bearer or api_key, and protect routes by role.
Type your streams. Trade raw SSE for StreamingResponse[T], which content-negotiates SSE / NDJSON / JSON Lines from the Accept header.
Observe it. Add structured logging with lauren-logging and request-id middleware from lauren-middlewares.

The finished app

The complete, tested source for everything you built lives in the repository at docs/tutorial/hero_hq/. Clone it, run it, break it, fix it — that's the best next step of all.

Welcome to Hero HQ. Now go save a city. 🦸