What is Starlette?
It is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building high performance asyncio services.
Starlette is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.
Starlette is an open source tool with 9.3K GitHub stars and 836 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Starlette's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Starlette?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use Starlette in their tech stacks, including Backend, GatewayAPI, and FaqBot.org.
Developers
14 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Starlette.
Starlette Integrations
Starlette's Features
- 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
Starlette Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Starlette?
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.
Sinatra
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
FastAPI
It is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.