uvicorn VS connexion

Compare uvicorn vs connexion and see what are their differences.

uvicorn

An ASGI web server, for Python. πŸ¦„ (by encode)

connexion

Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy. (by spec-first)
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uvicorn connexion
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uvicorn

Posts with mentions or reviews of uvicorn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

connexion

Posts with mentions or reviews of connexion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024
    I like the idea, especially the TS-like syntax around enums and union types. I've always preferred the SDL for GraphQL vs writing OpenAPI for similar reasons.

    I echo the sentiment others have brought up, which is the trade-offs of a code-driven schema vs schema-driven code.

    At work we use Pydantic and FastAPI to generate the OpenAPI contract, but there's some cruft and care needed around exposing those underlying Pydantic models through the API documentation. It's been easy to create schemas that have compatibility problems when run through other code generators. I know there are projects such as connexction[1] which attempt to inverse this, but I don't have much experience with it. In the GraphQL space it seems that code-first approaches are becoming more favored, though there's a different level of complexity needed to create a "typesafe" GraphQL server (eg. model mismatches between root query resolvers and field resolvers).

    [1] https://github.com/spec-first/connexion

  • Show HN: REST Alternative to GraphQL and tRPC
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
    > While REST APIs don't generally provide the same level of control to clients as GraphQL, many times this could be seen as a benefit especially in scenarios where strict control over data access and operations is crucial.

    Rest is more secure, cacheable, and more performant on the server side as field resolution doesn't need to happen like it does with GraphQL. It is not more performant on the client side, and this is a trade-off, but I favor rest applications over GraphQL ones as a DevOps engineer. They are much easier to administer infrastructure-wise, I can cache the requests, etc.

    Data at our company suggests that several small queries actually do better performance-wise than one large one. We switched to GraphQL a year and a half ago or so, but this piece of data seems to suggest that we might have been better off just sticking with REST. My suggestion to that effect was not met with optimism either on the client or server side. Apparently there are server-side benefits as well, allowing for more modular development or something like that.

    I have used OpenAPI using connexion[1]. It was hard to understand at first, but I really liked that the single source of truth was one schema. It also made it really easy to develop against the API because it came with a UI that showed the documentation for all the rest end points and even had test buttons.

    1: https://connexion.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

  • Ask HN: Why is there no specification for Command Line Interfaces?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2023
    What's the use case? I was thinking about this exact issue because my product ships several CLI tools, but I wasn't convinced it would be worth the effort.

    An OpenAPI specification describes an HTTP interface, and I see it as useful because it makes it easier to write code in language-of-choice to generate HTTP requests (by generating client libraries from the OpenAPI spec).

    For a CLI, the interface is the command-line. Usually people type these commands, or they end up in bash scripts, or sometimes they get called from programming language of choice by shelling out to the CLI. So I could see a use case for a CLI spec, which would make it easier to generate client libraries (which would shell out to the CLI)... but it seems a little niche.

    Or maybe, as input to a documentation tool (like Swagger docs). I would imagine if you're using a CLI library like Python's Click, most of that data is already there. Click Parameters documentation: https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.1.x/parameters/

    Or maybe, you could start from the spec and then generate code which enforces it. So any changes pass through the spec, which would make it easy to write code (server and client-side) / documentation / changelogs. Some projects like this: Guardrail (Scala) https://github.com/guardrail-dev/guardrail , and Connexion (Python) https://github.com/spec-first/connexion .

    But without this ecosystem of tooling, documenting your CLI in a specification didn't really seem worth the effort. Of course, that's a bootstrapping problem.

  • Flask is Great!
    3 projects | /r/flask | 4 Feb 2023
    Connexion is a framework on top of Flask that automagically handles HTTP requests defined using OpenAPI/Swagger.
  • What is the best practice for mapping JSON requests to objects and back to JSON?
    2 projects | /r/flask | 25 Jan 2023
    I recommend you create a OpenAPI Specification and implement a python module that you expose via connexion or on the cli via click(for easy testing).
  • Flask-Powered APIs: Fast, Reliable, and Used by the World's Top Companies
    2 projects | /r/flask | 15 Dec 2022
    I'm here because Swagger-CodeGen created flask-Connexion boilerplate for python.
  • Python REST APIs With Flask, Connexion, and SQLAlchemy – Part 1 – Real Python
    3 projects | /r/Python | 15 Nov 2022
  • Does anybody know any good resources I could use to study ISP architecture?
    2 projects | /r/networking | 12 Nov 2022
    Personally we just prov them using librouteros and flask-connexion/openapi.
  • what's the correct architecture to build rest api in flask?
    4 projects | /r/flask | 21 Oct 2022
    The reason im using py sqla for mvc i look at flask-admin for api i look at connexion, here a tutorial if your interested.
  • What's best library for swagger + flask?
    6 projects | /r/Python | 25 Sep 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing uvicorn and connexion you can also consider the following projects:

daphne - Django Channels HTTP/WebSocket server

hypercorn

hypercorn - Hypercorn is an ASGI and WSGI Server based on Hyper libraries and inspired by Gunicorn.

flask-restful - Simple framework for creating REST APIs

Flask - The Python micro framework for building web applications.

Flask RestPlus - Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask

flasgger - Easy OpenAPI specs and Swagger UI for your Flask API

dash - Data Apps & Dashboards for Python. No JavaScript Required.

starlette - The little ASGI framework that shines. 🌟

uvloop - Ultra fast asyncio event loop.

django-rest-framework - Web APIs for Django. 🎸

fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production