Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal
for building async web services in Python.

It is production-ready, and gives you the following:

* A lightweight, low-complexity HTTP web framework.
* WebSocket support.
* In-process background tasks.
* Startup and shutdown events.
* Test client built on httpx.
* CORS, GZip, Static Files, Streaming responses.
* Session and Cookie support.
* 100% test coverage.
* 100% type annotated codebase.
* Few hard dependencies.
* Compatible with asyncio and trio backends.
* Great overall performance against independent benchmarks.

Homepage:
https://github.com/encode/starlette
