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19 lines
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# Starlette
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[Starlette](https://www.starlette.io/) is a lightweight [ASGI](https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building async web services in Python.
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It is production-ready, and gives you the following:
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- A lightweight, low-complexity HTTP web framework.
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- WebSocket support.
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- In-process background tasks.
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- Startup and shutdown events.
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- Test client built on `requests`.
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- CORS, GZip, Static Files, Streaming responses.
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- Session and Cookie support.
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- 100% test coverage.
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- 100% type annotated codebase.
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- Few hard dependencies.
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- Compatible with `asyncio` and `trio` backends.
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- Great overall performance [against independent benchmarks](https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&l=zijzen-sf).
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