Guide on mcp dev for python SDK

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I am able to run mcp dev package/server.py if there is a server object in the server.py. But when I look at https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/blob/main/src/fetch/src/mcp_server_fetch/server.py for example, the server object is wrapped in a serve function. If it is the recommended way to wrap a python mcp server in a serve function to serve with async, could anyone recommend how we could be inspecting the MCP server like using mcp dev and go to localhost:5173?

Need a guide on setting MCP server for production, but still make it easy to debug on local development.