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connexion
Python2015–2024
spec-first / connexion

connexion

Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.

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17Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-10-29 07:52:56 UTC to 2024-03-27 19:08:01 UTC.

0123452015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Hey just to let you know -- the reason I'd pick something like FastAPI over pyotr is because I don't want to write the OpenAPI -- I personally see code on the backend as the source of truth, and prefer for it to go the other way (Swagger/OpenAPI YAML/JSON generated from code). Other than that, library looks cool! like connexion[0] but starlette based. Might be worth putting a comparison on your page? [0]: https://github.com/zalando/connexion
In Show HN: A faster way to prototype your APIs using OpenAPI 3 and Swagger UI
I work at a rather large company that has an internal gateway for all APIs. Each api has an associated OpenAPI doc and the standardization makes it incredibly easy to peruse all capabilities across the company, despite programming language, organizational, and physical barriers between developers. I concede that the magic there is in the standardization of API level docs, and not the special sauce that OpenAPI brings to the table. I just don't know of an alternative that is as language agnostic as OpenAPI. Personally, I enjoy using server frameworks with first class support for OpenAPI. The projects I've used it in have forced me to write documentation first, and really think about what I'm trying to accomplish from a design perspective. I am by all metrics a very average developer, and a tool that pushes me to think in a new way is one I
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'd like to use. Here's an example of the type of framework I'm talking about, this is Flask + OpenAPI. https://github.com/zalando/connexion That said, different strokes for different folks. I am sure it is a massive headache to deal with all that YAML if you're not getting anything out of it.
In Show HN: A faster way to prototype your APIs using OpenAPI 3 and Swagger UI

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