Falcon
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Jun 3, 2020
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CommentsWhat is Falcon?
Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.
Falcon is a tool in the Microframeworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Intuitive routing via URI templates and resource classesEasy access to headers and bodies through request and response classesIdiomatic HTTP error responses via a handy exception base classDRY request processing using global, resource, and method hooksSnappy unit testing through WSGI helpers and mocks20% speed boost when Cython is availablePython 2.6, Python 2.7, PyPy and Python 3.3/3.4 support
Falcon Pros & Cons
Pros of Falcon
- ✓Python
- ✓FAST
- ✓Minimal
- ✓Open source
- ✓REST oriented
- ✓Well designed
- ✓Powerful
- ✓Really Light Weight
- ✓Documentation
- ✓Easy to develop and maintain applications
Cons of Falcon
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Falcon Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Falcon?
ExpressJS
Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Django REST framework
It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
FastAPI
It is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.