extra-http 1.0.12

A toolkit to write HTTP/1.1 web services and applications, with first class support for streaming

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Extra is an toolkit to write HTTP/1.1 web services and applications, with first class support for streaming.

It is focused on providing primitives for creating web services, implemented to work well both in development and production while providing a great developer experience.

Key Features:

• Client and server
• Streaming reads and writes, lazy decoding and encoding
• Embedded asynchronous HTTP/1 development server
• Only requires Python stdlib
• Good baseline performance (5-10K RPS on average hardware)

Design principles:

• Declarative: decorators to expose methods as web services
• Stream-oriented: encourages writing stream processing handlers
• Service focused: template are left out, but lots of building blocks are available for services.

Highlights:

• Pre/post conditions for request handlers
• HTML templating (plays nice with HTMX)
• CORS support
• Configurable proxy support
• Integrated logging
• Regexp-based tree router

Extra is the successor of Retro, one of the oldest decorator-based framework for HTTP applications and built on the 15+ years of experience developing and maintaining that toolkit.

Like Retro, Extra is designed as a kit, providing easily composable building blocks that help you build fast, readable and resilient web services.

Similar projects include Quart, Starlette, bareASGI and of course, FastAPI.

Example: Hello, World! Service

Here is helloworld.py:

#!/usr/bin/env uv run --with extra-http
from extra import Service, HTTPRequest, HTTPResponse, on, run

class HelloWorld(Service):
    @on(GET="{any}")
    def helloWorld(self, request: HTTPRequest, any:str) -> HTTPResponse:
        return request.respond(b"Hello, World !", "text/plain")

app = run(HelloWorld())