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Responder: a familiar HTTP Service Framework for Python

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This gets you a ASGI app, with a production static files server pre-installed, Jinja templating (without additional imports), and a production webserver based on uvloop, serving up requests with gzip compression automatically.

Testimonials

"Pleasantly very taken with python-responder. @kennethreitz at his absolute best." —Rudraksh M.K.

"ASGI is going to enable all sorts of new high-performance web services. It's awesome to see Responder starting to take advantage of that." — Tom Christie author of Django REST Framework

"I love that you are exploring new patterns. Go go go!" — Danny Greenfield, author of Two Scoops of Django

More Examples

See the documentation's feature tour for more details on features available in Responder.

Installing Responder

Install the most recent stable release:

pip install --upgrade 'responder'

Include support for all extensions and interfaces:

pip install --upgrade 'responder[full]'

Individual optional installation extras are:

Or, install directly from the repository:

pip install 'responder[full] @ git+https://github.com/kennethreitz/responder.git'

Responder supports Python 3.6+.

The Basic Idea

The primary concept here is to bring the niceties that are brought forth from both Flask and Falcon and unify them into a single framework, along with some new ideas I have. I also wanted to take some of the API primitives that are instilled in the Requests library and put them into a web framework. So, you'll find a lot of parallels here with Requests.

Ideas

Development

See Development Sandbox.