Python Asyncio

Open-source Python projects categorized as Asyncio

Top 23 Python Asyncio Projects

  1. fastapi

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

    Project mention: Shipping Sovereign SDK: Cryptographic Forensic Receipts and the End of the AI "Prose Tax" | dev.to | 2026-05-29

    The Sovereign SDK is a Python-native framework designed to minimize prose overhead while generating ironclad, cryptographic execution receipts for AI agents, complete with drop-in FastAPI/Starlette ASGI middleware.

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  3. Home Assistant

    :house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

    Project mention: The Homelab Rabbit Hole | dev.to | 2026-05-29

    I don’t really know why, but since recently I’ve been reading and watching videos about Home Assistant (HA), and it has always sounded very appealing but I’m a bit change averse and don’t want to commit to something if I’m not sure that I’ll make good use of it. So, when I recently started seriously considering purchasing a Home Assistant Green (which is a preconfigured system running HA), my inner self pushed me into the hole:

  4. sanic

    Accelerate your web app development | Build fast. Run fast.

  5. AIOHTTP

    Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python

    Project mention: A zip bomb can be used to execute a DoS against the aiohttp server | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-05
  6. httpx

    A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋

    Project mention: Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-13

    > I made a PR to fix it but the maintainers haven't applied it. :-( https://github.com/encode/httpx/pull/3733

    Unfortunately, you may be the wrong gender to contribute to Encode repositories like httpx:

    > I've closed off access to issues and discussions.

    > I don't want to continue allowing an online environment with such an absurdly skewed gender representation. I find it intensely unwelcoming, and it's not reflective of the type of working environments I value.

    — https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784

    Discussed on Hacker News here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193563

    A fork discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514603

  7. uvicorn

    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄

    Project mention: A Toy Django REST API with an Admin Panel | dev.to | 2025-11-07

    When you're ready to show your app to the world, you need a production server that can handle real traffic. This is where ASGI servers like Daphne or Uvicorn come in - they're built for speed and security. You combine these with a proper web server like gunicorn, and suddenly your app can actually survive in the wild instead of just running on your laptop.

  8. litestar

    Light, flexible and extensible ASGI framework | Built to scale

    Project mention: Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-16

    A lot of people in this thread mentioning the limitations of Flask and “why not FastAPI” etc - but I’ve found Litestar to be the best alternative and it has htmx support out of the box.

    https://litestar.dev/

  9. asyncpg

    A fast PostgreSQL Database Client Library for Python/asyncio.

  10. Faust

    Python Stream Processing

  11. gevent

    Coroutine-based concurrency library for Python

  12. fastapi-users

    Ready-to-use and customizable users management for FastAPI

  13. aiogram

    aiogram is a modern and fully asynchronous framework for Telegram Bot API written in Python using asyncio

  14. tortoise-orm

    Familiar asyncio ORM for python, built with relations in mind

  15. faststream

    FastStream is an asynchronous Python framework for building event-driven applications. It brings together message broker integration, dependency injection, validation, testing utilities, and AsyncAPI documentation generation in a single toolkit

    Project mention: FastStream 0.7: MQTT support – in-memory tests, AsyncAPI generation and more | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-01
  16. aiortc

    WebRTC and ORTC implementation for Python using asyncio

    Project mention: Héberger un agent IA vocal sur AWS Bedrock AgentCore communiquant via WebRTC | dev.to | 2026-03-27
  17. Dependency Injector

    Dependency injection framework for Python

    Project mention: Dependency Injection: a Python Way | dev.to | 2025-12-18

    Dependency Injector - Official Documentation

  18. strawberry

    A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations 🍓

  19. python-socketio

    Python Socket.IO server and client

  20. python-slack-sdk

    Slack Developer Kit for Python

    Project mention: Slack Integration Patterns for Alerts and Workflows | dev.to | 2026-04-15

    slack_sdk (Python Slack SDK) for Web API clients, signature helpers, and retry infrastructure (Python Slack SDK docs, python-slack-sdk repo)

  21. mcp-context-forge

    An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.

    Project mention: Every AI toolchain is inventing its own safety layer. We shipped one that works across all of them. | dev.to | 2026-05-12

    Anthropic shipped Claude Code hooks — PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Notification, and friends. They run as subprocesses, get JSON on stdin, and decide whether the tool call proceeds. OpenAI ships tool guardrails in the Agents SDK — Python (and now TS) callables you attach to a tool, with tripwire booleans that abort the run. The MCP ecosystem is sprouting gateways and proxies for the same purpose: MCPX, IBM ContextForge, Microsoft's MCP Gateway, Lasso Security's MCP Gateway — all reasonable answers to the same wire-level question.

  22. quart

    An async Python micro framework for building web applications.

    Project mention: Quart: Asyncio Reimplementation of Flask | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-05
  23. aiofiles

    File support for asyncio

    Project mention: The Fundamentals of Asyncio | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-21

    Instead of adding another dependency you can just call `loop.run_in_executor` yourself: https://github.com/Tinche/aiofiles/blob/main/src/aiofiles/ba...

  24. arq

    Fast job queuing and RPC in python with asyncio and redis.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Asyncio projects in Python? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 fastapi 98,890
2 Home Assistant 87,493
3 sanic 18,629
4 AIOHTTP 16,439
5 httpx 15,275
6 uvicorn 10,725
7 litestar 8,259
8 asyncpg 8,041
9 Faust 6,823
10 gevent 6,439
11 fastapi-users 6,157
12 aiogram 5,734
13 tortoise-orm 5,574
14 faststream 5,203
15 aiortc 5,058
16 Dependency Injector 4,878
17 strawberry 4,667
18 python-socketio 4,348
19 python-slack-sdk 4,005
20 mcp-context-forge 3,814
21 quart 3,639
22 aiofiles 3,251
23 arq 2,944

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