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Master the Art of Building Lightweight ASGI Applications with Starlette

Explore our comprehensive Starlette tutorial to harness this lightweight ASGI framework, ideal for building robust Python async applications. Discover its role as a FastAPI base and learn the essentials with practical examples.

pip install starlette

Overview

What is Starlette and why use it?

Key features and capabilities

Installation instructions

Basic usage examples

Common use cases

Best practices and tips

Common Use Cases

Building lightweight APIs
Serving as a FastAPI base
Creating real-time applications

Code Examples

Getting Started with Starlette

from starlette.applications import Starlette\nfrom starlette.responses import JSONResponse\nfrom starlette.routing import Route\n\nasync def homepage(request):\n    return JSONResponse({'hello': 'world'})\n\napp = Starlette(debug=True, routes=[\n    Route('/', homepage),\n])

Advanced Starlette Example

from starlette.applications import Starlette\nfrom starlette.responses import JSONResponse\nfrom starlette.routing import Route\nfrom starlette.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware\n\nasync def homepage(request):\n    return JSONResponse({'message': 'This is an advanced example'})\n\napp = Starlette()\napp.add_middleware(CORSMiddleware, allow_origins=['*'])\napp.add_route('/', homepage)

Alternatives

FastAPI Django ASGI

Common Methods

route

Registers a new route with the application

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