litestar-org/litestar

Health v2 · maintenance only

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8419 stars · 617 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Litestar is a production-ready, highly performant, extensible ASGI API framework for Python, formerly known as Starlite. It provides REST API building with OpenAPI generation, dependency injection, and support for Pydantic and msgspec serialization.

Use cases

• build rest apis in python
• async asgi web framework
• generate openapi docs automatically
• high performance python api server
• build scalable backend services
• replace flask or fastapi with a faster framework

When to choose

• you need a high-performance async Python API framework
• you want built-in OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
• you need dependency injection and layered architecture out of the box
• you want flexibility between Pydantic and msgspec for validation

When to avoid

• you need a minimal WSGI framework like Flask for simple sync apps
• your team relies on a framework with a much larger plugin ecosystem
• you need Django's full-stack features like ORM admin and templating

Facets

framework · maturity active

web-framework api-framework http-server routing middleware serialization api-documentation web-development backend apis developer-tools python cross-platform asgi rest-api openapi pydantic msgspec asyncio swagger starlite web-server

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