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24 alternatives to Twisted and Django = hendrix, a new python web server making async fun

A python web server focused on async and offbeat network traffic. Named for the thought, "who is a 'twisted' Django R?" (though it works with any WSGI app). - GitHub - hendrix/hendrix at 2.0.0

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Twisted and Django = hendrix, a new python web server making async fun launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Robyn is a Super Fast Async Python Web Framework with a Rust runtime. - sparckles/Robyn

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I built Oxyde because I was tired of duplicating my models. If you use FastAPI, you know the drill. You define Pydantic models for your API, then define separate ORM models for your database, then write converters between them. SQLModel tries to fix this but it's still SQLAlchemy underneath. Tortoise gives you a nice Django-style API but its own model system. Django ORM is great but welded to the framework. I wanted something simple: your Pydantic model IS your database model. One class, full validation on input and output, native type hints, zero duplication. The query API is…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I've been "funemployed" for a few months and with all that free time and idle hands I wrote a full web framework (think Rails, not Flask) for Rust. It's boring old MVC, has its own ORM, templates, background jobs, auth, websockets, migrations and more. If you're keen but don't feel like rewriting your app in a different language, Rwf has a WSGI server to run Django (or Flask) inside Rust [1], letting you migrate to Rust at your own pace without disrupting your website. I think Rust makes a great prototyping and deploy straight to production language. Now it has yet another…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tornado HTTP/2 Client. Contribute to vladmunteanu/th2c development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to crowdwave/maryjane development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WebRTC and ORTC implementation for Python using asyncio - jlaine/aiortc

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bringing Http/Https and WebSockets High Performance servers for PyPy3 and Python3 - cirospaciari/socketify.py

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An ultra fast WSGI server for Python 3. Contribute to jamesroberts/fastwsgi development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Last year, we shared marimo [1], an open-source reactive notebook for Python with support for execution through WebAssembly [2]. We wanted to share something new: you can now run marimo and Jupyter notebooks directly from GitHub in a Wasm-powered, codespace-like environment. What makes this powerful is that we mount the GitHub repository's contents as a filesystem in the notebook, making it really easy to share notebooks with data. All you need to do is prepend 'marimo.app' to any Python notebook on GitHub. Some examples: - Jupyter Notebook:…

    2025 · docs.marimo.io · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News lookalike written in Python/Django, powering https://news.python.sc - sebst/pythonic-news

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple async/await task queue for Django. One process, no threads, no other dependencies. - drpancake/chard

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Wagtail is a new, open-source Django CMS focused on flexibility and user experience. It was originally built for the Royal College of Art, but now we're able to share it with everyone. See https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail and http://wagtail.io (marketing site) and http://www.rca.ac.uk/ (first big site built on Wagtail) We're really proud of the user interface, and we hope that Wagtail will make it easy for Django developers to build beautiful, modern sites. Feedback very welcome! Tom Dyson, Technical Director at Torchbox (Wagtail developers)

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Robyn is a high-performance async Python web framework powered by a Rust runtime. Build fast, scalable web applications with Python's simplicity and Rust's speed.

    2025 · robyn.tech · its alternatives →

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    Readable, simple and fast asynchronous non-blocking network apps - hivesolutions/netius

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Last month, we shared marimo [1][2], an open-source reactive notebook for Python. For those who missed it, marimo notebooks are reproducible, stored as Python files, executable as Python scripts, and deployable as web apps. It’s now possible to run marimo notebooks entirely in the browser via WebAssembly (WASM). - A marimo tutorial as a WASM notebook: https://marimo.app/l/c7h6pz - Training a neural network with Karpathy’s micrograd: https://marimo.app/l/xpd4te - Visualizing attractors, as a read-only app:…

    2024 · marimo.app · its alternatives →

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    Serving Django and Twisted using HAproxy. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2013 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    I started building a couple of years ago because I found no easy existing solution to build Slack bots that can be composed from/organized into plugins. Existing libraries like Bolt make it pretty easy to develop Slack bots, but hard to organize and scale the code base of your bot. I was also missing some crucial features such as scheduling actions for your bot. So I wrote my own framework! I recently rewrote the complete framework to make use of asyncio and the newest Slack SDK Let me know what you think!

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build real-time web applications with Django.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! I've been working on a web search interface for Python's documentation as a personal project, and I think it's ready for other people to use... Please give it a go (and join me in praying to the server gods): https://pythondocs.xyz/ Here's the tech stack for those interested: - Parser: Beautiful Soup + Mozilla Bleach - Database: in-memory SQLite (aiosqlite) + SQLAlchemy - Web server: FastAPI + Uvicorn + Jinja2 - Front end: Tailwind CSS + htmx + Alpine.js I have ideas for future improvements but hopefully the current version is useful to someone. Let me know what…

    2022 · pythondocs.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Have you been looking for an easier way to build serverless microservices? Zappa and Flask can help you with that.

    2016 · gun.io · its alternatives →

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