v0.1.0

Initial release of Chirp — a Python web framework for HTML-over-the-wire apps, built for Python 3.14t.

Highlights

• Type-driven content negotiation — Return Template, Fragment, Stream, EventStream, Response, strings, or dicts from route handlers
• Kida built in — Fragment rendering, streaming templates, and filter registration are first-class
• Server-Sent Events — Push Kida-rendered HTML fragments to the browser in real-time
• Streaming HTML — Progressive rendering via Kida, browser receives the shell immediately
• Middleware — Protocol-based composable pipeline with built-in CORS, StaticFiles, Sessions
• Typed contracts — app.check() validates the full hypermedia surface at startup
• Security — Session middleware, auth helpers, authorization decorators, open redirect protection
• Data — Typed async database access (SQLite, PostgreSQL) and form validation
• AI streaming — Provider-agnostic LLM streaming with tool calling support
• Free-threading native — Immutable data structures, ContextVar isolation, designed for 3.14t

Install

pip install bengal-chirp

See the CHANGELOG for full details.