Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building async web services in Python. It is production-ready and gives you a lightweight, low-complexity HTTP web framework. WebSocket support. In-process background tasks. Startup and shutdown events. Test client built on httpx. CORS, GZip, Static Files, streaming responses. Session and Cookie support. 100% test coverage. 100% type annotated codebase. Few hard dependencies. Compatible with asyncio and trio backends.
Features
- A lightweight, low-complexity HTTP web framework
- In-process background tasks
- CORS, GZip, Static Files, Streaming responses
- 100% type annotated codebase
- Few hard dependencies
- Compatible with asyncio and trio backends
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