FastAPI Users quiz

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What does FastAPI Users' email verification flow typically involve?

1. What does FastAPI Users' email verification flow typically involve?
2. What consideration is important when deciding whether to expose the raw FastAPI Users user model directly as an API response versus using a dedicated output schema?
3. What does FastAPI Users' support for OAuth2 (social login, e.g. "Sign in with Google") typically add on top of its core email/password authentication?
4. What does it mean that FastAPI Users' routers are designed to be "mounted" onto a FastAPI application, e.g. `app.include_router(fastapi_users.get_auth_router(...))`?
5. What is the role of FastAPI's dependency injection system (`Depends`) in how FastAPI Users exposes the "current authenticated user" to a route handler?
6. Why is it generally considered risky for a team to hand-roll their own authentication system from scratch instead of using a well-established library like FastAPI Users?
7. Why might a project choose a JWT-based authentication backend over a database-backed session/cookie backend with FastAPI Users?
8. What common, repetitive problem does FastAPI Users aim to solve for FastAPI developers?
9. Why would validating a registration request body with a Pydantic schema (as FastAPI Users does) be preferable to accepting raw, unvalidated form/JSON data directly?
10. What is a "backend" in FastAPI Users' authentication terminology (e.g. a JWT backend vs. a cookie/session backend)?
11. How does FastAPI Users typically identify a user record internally, and why might using a UUID rather than an auto-incrementing integer ID be the default choice?
12. What does FastAPI Users' `current_active_user` dependency check that a more basic `current_user` dependency might not?

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