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When deploying agents to LangSmith Deployment, your server automatically exposes routes for creating runs and threads, interacting with the long-term memory store, managing configurable assistants, and other core functionality (see all default API endpoints). You can add custom routes by providing your own app object and passing its path in langgraph.json (for example, a Starlette app in Python or a Hono app in Javascript). Defining a custom app object lets you add any routes you’d like, so you can do anything from adding a /login endpoint to writing an entire full-stack web-app, all deployed in a single Agent Server. Below are examples for Python and Javascript.

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Create app

Starting from an existing LangSmith application, add the following custom route code to your app file. If you are starting from scratch, you can create a new app from a template using the CLI. 
langgraph new --template=new-langgraph-project-python my_new_project
Once you have a LangGraph project, add the following app code:
# ./src/agent/webapp.py
from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/hello")
def read_root():
    return {"Hello": "World"}

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Configure langgraph.json

Add the following to your langgraph.json configuration file. Make sure the path points to the app instance you created in the previous section. 
{
  "dependencies": ["."],
  "graphs": {
    "agent": "./src/agent/graph.py:graph"
  },
  "env": ".env",
  "http": {
    "app": "./src/agent/webapp.py:app"
  }
  // Other configuration options like auth, store, etc.
}

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Start server

Test the server out locally: 
langgraph dev --no-browser
If you navigate to localhost:2024/hello in your browser (2024 is the default development port), you should see the /hello endpoint returning a JSON response.
Shadowing default endpoints The routes you create in the app are given priority over the system defaults, meaning you can shadow and redefine the behavior of any default endpoint.

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Deploying

You can deploy this app as-is to LangSmith or to your self-hosted platform.

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Next steps

Now that you’ve added a custom route to your deployment, you can use this same technique to further customize how your server behaves, such as defining custom middleware and custom lifespan events.
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