Quart; an ASGI alternative to Flask
EuroPython 2018 Talk
I was happily a late addition to EuroPython schedule in Edinburgh about how ASGI is a viable alternative to WSGI and how Quart is a viable ASGI alternative to Flask. The talk itself is on youtube (linked below) and I’ve made the slides available via google slides (also linked below).
Abstract
Flask is a great web micro-framework, that is best utilised with event-loop concurrency. Sadly with Flask the event-loop framework can’t be asyncio, although some extensions (Flask-Aiohttp) have tried. Quart is the solution as it shares the Flask API and is based on asyncio. In addition Quart goes beyond Flask adding HTTP/2 and websockets.
This talk will outline why ASGI is a good asynchronous version of WSGI, and then give an overview of Quart, demonstrating features that go beyond the Flask framework.
