Guix

Falcon is a web API framework for building microservices, application backends and higher-level frameworks. Among its features are:

• Optimized and extensible code base

• Routing via URI templates and REST-inspired resource classes

• Access to headers and bodies through request and response classes

• Request processing via middleware components and hooks

• Idiomatic HTTP error responses

• Straightforward exception handling

• Unit testing support through WSGI helpers and mocks

• Compatible with both CPython and PyPy

• Cython support for better performance when used with CPython