| PackageDescription | ASGI library ideal for building high performance asyncio services
Starlette is a lightweight ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface)
framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building high performance asyncio
services.
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It is production-ready, and gives you the following:
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* Seriously impressive performance.
* WebSocket support.
* GraphQL support.
* In-process background tasks.
* Startup and shutdown events.
* Test client built on `requests`.
* CORS, GZip, Static Files, Streaming responses.
* Session and Cookie support.
* 100% test coverage.
* 100% type annotated codebase.
* Zero hard dependencies.
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Example:
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from starlette.applications import Starlette
from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
from starlette.routing import Route
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async def homepage(request):
return JSONResponse({'hello': 'world'})
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app = Starlette(debug=True, routes=[
Route('/', homepage),
]) |