Complementary Packages

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This page provides examples of general-purpose (i.e., not Falcon-specific) Python packages that complement the Falcon web framework. This list is not meant to be exhaustive, or to be interpreted as any kind of endorsement of these packages. Rather, it simply provides a starting point from which to begin your own exploration of potentially useful projects from the Python community.

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• Sessions and caching
  • beaker
  • dogpile
  • PyJWT
    • Implements JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
  • JWCrypto
    • Implements JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and other Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) Web Standards
  • Biscuits
    • Fast server-side cookie handling
• Cryptography
  • cryptography
  • pynacl
  • bcrypt
  • pyopenssl
• Plugin Management
  • pike
• Configuration
  • toml
  • confuse
  • loadconfig
  • aumbry
• Forms
  • streaming-form-data
    • Use to parse multipart/form-data in chunks (Editor's Note: As of 3.0+, Falcon supports efficient parsing of multipart forms out of the box.)
• Serialization
  • alchemize
  • fastjsonschema
  • ijson
    • Iterative JSON parser
  • jsonschema
  • marshmallow
  • msgpack
  • msgspec
    • One of the fastest data serialization and validation libraries; supports JSON, Msgpack and YAML
  • orjson
    • A fast JSON library wrapping Rust's Serde
  • python-rapidjson
  • ujson
    • Warning: Only use with CPython (ujson is actually slower than json on PyPy)
• Request validation
  • webargs
• Databases
  • SQLAlchemy
  • SQLAlchemy-Utils
  • psycopg2cffi
  • Pony ORM
• Files
  • aiofiles
    • For use with Falcon's ASGI apps
• Rate Limiting
  • backoff
  • limits
• Testing
  • pytest
  • specter
  • pretend
  • testing.postgresql