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Starlette

Lightweight ASGI framework and toolkit — the foundation that FastAPI and other async Python frameworks are built on.

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Starlette provides the async primitives — request/response handling, routing, middleware, WebSockets, background tasks — that FastAPI and other frameworks build on. Used directly, it is a production-ready micro-framework for high-performance async Python services with no overhead beyond what you need.

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