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Appier Framework

Joyful Python Web App development

Appier is an object-oriented Python web framework built for super-fast app development. It's as lightweight as possible, but not too lightweight. It gives you the power of bigger frameworks, without their complexity.

Your first app can be just a few lines long:

import appier

class HelloApp(appier.App):

    @appier.route("/", "GET")
    def hello(self):
        return "Hello World"

HelloApp().serve()

The same app using the async/await syntax (Python 3.5+) for async execution reads pretty much the same:

import appier

class HelloApp(appier.App):

    @appier.route("/", "GET")
    async def hello(self):
        await self.send("Hello World")

HelloApp().serve()

Running it is just as simple:

pip install appier
python hello.py

For the async version an ASGI compliant server should be used (eg: Uvicorn):

SERVER=uvicorn python hello.py

Your "Hello World" app is now running at http://localhost:8080.

It features the following:

  • Object-oriented
  • WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) compliant
  • ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) ready
  • Modular, using dynamically loaded parts
  • Python 3 compatible
  • RESTful request dispatching
  • Asynchronous request handling support
  • Templating, using Jinja2
  • Data model layer, currently supports MongoDB and TinyDB
  • Automatic JSON response encoding for fast API development
  • Automatic admin interface, using Appier Extras
  • Internationalization (i18n) support
  • Flexible project configuration
  • Out-of-the-box support for multiple WSGI and ASGI servers: Netius, Uvicorn, Hypercorn, Daphne, etc.

For the purposes of rapid web development, Appier goes well with Netius (web-server) and UXF (client-side graphical library) as a whole stack.

Learn more

Basic

Advanced

  • Events - how to send information across the app
  • Logging - how to log your app's activity
  • Email - how to send emails

License

Appier is currently licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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