Nextpress

A Python web framework inspired by Express.js, built on ASGI.

Installation

pip install nextpress

Quick Start

from nextpress import Nextpress, Request, Response, Anext

app = Nextpress()

async def logger(request: Request, response: Response, anext: Anext):
    print(f"{request.method} {request.path}")
    response.set_header("X-Processed-Time", str(time.time()))
    await anext()


async def hello(response: Response[str]):
    await response.send_text("Hello, World!")

app.get("/", logger, hello)

Run with:

uvicorn example:app

Features

• Express-style routing with <method>() and use()
• Route based middleware support with anext() pattern
• Explicit response writing
• Modular middlewares to parse input
• Route matching and chaining
• Built on uvicorn/ASGI for async performance
• Response and Request generics for typing

Future features (feautures?)

• Pydantic validation of request and response
• CORS, multipart/form body parser, and other middlewares
• Actual tests
• Websocket handling