What is webapp2?
webapp2 is a simple. it follows the simplicity of webapp, but improves it in some ways: it adds better URI routing and exception handling, a full featured response object and a more flexible dispatching mechanism.
webapp2 is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Who uses webapp2?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use webapp2 in their tech stacks, including Shoes of Prey, App Backend, and Stylindex.
Developers
8 developers on StackShare have stated that they use webapp2.
webapp2 Integrations
webapp2's Features
- Compatible with webapp
- Compatible with latest WebOb
- Full-featured response object
- Status code exceptions
- Improved exception handling
- Lazy handlers
- Keyword arguments from URI
- Positional arguments from URI
- Returned responses
- Custom handler methods
- View functions
- More flexible dispatching mechanism
- Domain and subdomain routing
- Match HTTP methods or URI schemes
- URI builder
- Redirection for legacy URIs
- Simple, well-tested and documented
- Independent of the App Engine SDK
- Future proof
- Same performance
- Extras
webapp2 Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to webapp2?
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Web2py
It is a free open source full-stack framework for rapid development of fast, scalable, secure and portable database-driven web-based applications. Written and programmable in Python
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
ASP.NET
.NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.
