hug

Some more options: Eve: https://github.com/nicolaiarocci/eve Hug: https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug flask-restful: https://github.com/flask-restful/flask-restful

Take a look at Hug - it's built on Falcon and adds all the API niceties :-) https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug

Do you know any projects that reverse this functionality (generating API documentation from code)? I know that https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug intends to provide this in the future, but could not find one for other languages (Javascript would be useful right now).

Still working on docs for these pieces. hug does have support for authentication and CORS, here's a simple basic authentication example: https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug/blob/develop/examples/... Documentation is the projects highest priority at this point, as it has most of the features people need when creating an API, is battle tested in several production systems, and is highly configurable / extendable for anything missing. We're taking the time now to write down all the "hows" and hope to make video tutorials soon as well.

Author here: I encourage anyone that is curious about the reason for this framework as opposed to X to read the project's architecture document https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug/blob/develop/ARCHITECT.... Some highlights: it allows some of the most concise Python code, produces automatic documentation, supports annotation based validation and argument transformation, automatically enables version management, and is way faster then Flask / Django at handling requests. Also, I'm free to answer any questions you may have :)

It has a way simpler programming interface then Falcon while retaining the speed benefits: and is really a way more powerful concept as explained here: https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug/blob/develop/ARCHITECT... The real question should be, why take the time to write Falcon when you can get the same performance and more code-reuse using hug?

author: Hug actually does make it super easy to write a CLI app, you can see an example here: https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug/blob/develop/examples/... and a full explanation of the concept here: https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug/blob/develop/ARCHITECT...

author here: This is way more then Flask/Bottle, I understand what would make you reach that conclusion, but if you look here https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug/blob/develop/ARCHITECT... You can see just how much it adds that really are core concepts that can't be done with simple decorators on-top of Flask. Highlights: - Automatic documentation - Type annotation based validation and transformation of input fields - Directives to inject more data (like request data) into existing functions in a safe and reusable way - It's easily twice as fast at handling requests as Flask, making Flask a rather horrible base for any competitor