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Starlite has been renamed to Litestar

Awesome Litestar

A curated list of awesome things related to Litestar.

Effortlessly build performant APIs with Litestar - The powerful, lightweight and flexible ASGI framework

Table of Contents

• Resources
  • Official Resources
    • Utils
  • Third-Party Extensions
    • Admin
    • Auth
    • Databases
    • Developer Tools
    • Email
    • Utils
  • External Resources
    • Podcasts
    • Articles
    • Tutorials
    • Talks
    • Videos
    • Best Practices
  • Hosting
    • PaaS
    • IaaS
    • Serverless
  • Projects
    • Boilerplate
    • Docker Images
    • Open Source Projects

Resources

Official

Official Resources

• Documentation includes comprehensive API reference docs as well as usage guides.

• Tutorial on Litestar, for people that are new to Litestar.

• Source Code is hosted on GitHub.

• Connect with the Litestar community on Discord, Twitter, and Reddit.

• Litestar Blog - The official Litestar blog.

Internal Utils

• litestar-asyncpg - A plugin for the AsyncPG database driver.
• litestar-vite - A Vite adapter for Litestar.
• litestar-piccolo - A Piccolo ORM adapter for Litestar.

Built-in Extensions

This section is highlighting built-in extensions that are part of the Litestar standard library that you would normally find as third-party extensions in other frameworks.

• HTMX
• Websockets
• OpenTelemetry Instrumentation
• Prometheus Instrumentation

Third-Party

Third-Party Extensions

General

• litestar-MQTT - A plugin for the MQTT protocol.
• litestar-saq - A plugin for the SAQ job queuing framework
• litestar-taskiq - Taskiq integration for Litestar
• litestar-aiosql - A plugin for the aiosql database query builder.
• litestar-granian - A plugin for the Granian HTTP server, written in Rust.
• litestar-svcs - A plugin for the SVCS service locater/dependency injection library.
• Litestar-SAQ-HTMX - Proof of concept using SAQ, Litestar, HTMX, and Server-Sent events for a simple SAQ job monitor

Admin

• Piccolo Admin - A powerful and modern admin GUI, using the Piccolo ORM.
• SQLAdminPlugin - Integrates SQLAdmin with a Litestar application.

Auth

• litestar-users - Authentication and user management for the Litestar framework.

Databases

ORMs

• Piccolo - An async ORM and query builder, supporting Postgres and SQLite, with batteries (migrations, security, etc).
  • Litestar Docs - Piccolo - Documentation on using Piccolo with Litestar.
  • Litestar Example - Using Litestar withPiccolo.
  • litestar-piccolo - A Piccolo ORM adapter for Litestar.

ODMs

[!NOTE] TODO

Monitoring

• apitally - A plugin for easy API monitoring with Apitally (including API traffic, errors, response times, payload sizes and uptime).

Other

Developer Tools

Email

Utils

External

External Resources

Podcasts

• Talk Python to me #433

Articles

• Create a Websocket Chat App - A quick post on creating a websocket chat app with Litestar in 30 lines of code.
• Creating a universal template (Russian) - An article about template built on the principles of clean architecture using Litestar, SqlAlchemy, Pydantic, dishka, FastStream

Tutorials

• Official Litestar Tutorial Section - The official Litestar tutorial section.
• Litestar video series by R3ap3rPy

Talks

Videos

• BugBytes—Litestar for API development with Pydantic

Best Practices

Hosting Litestar

Hosting

PaaS

(Platforms-as-a-Service)

• Railway - Search for Litestar.
• Heroku - Deploy using Heroku.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Deploy using AWS.
• Google App Engine - Deploy using GCP.
• Microsoft Azure App Service - Deploy using Azure.

IaaS

(Infrastructure-as-a-Service)

• AWS EC2 - Deploy using AWS.
• Google Compute Engine - Deploy using GCP.
• Digital Ocean - Deploy using Digital Ocean.

Serverless

Frameworks

• Chalice - Python Serverless Microframework for AWS.
• Mangum - Adapter for running ASGI applications with AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
• Vercel - Serverless Functions and Hosting.

Compute

• AWS Lambda - Serverless compute.
• Google Cloud Functions - Serverless compute.

• Azure Functions - Serverless compute.
• Google Cloud Run - Serverless compute.

Example and Referece Projects

Projects

Boilerplate

• Litestar, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLAlchemy
• Litestar, FastStream, dishka, SQLAlchemy
• Litestar Fullstack with Vite, VueJS, Redis, PostgreSQL, and more - Made by @cofin.
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• Basic Litestar App - Basic Litestar app with TailwindCSS.
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Docker Images

[!NOTE] Coming Soon :)

Open Source Projects

• Network Information API - Toy app with TailwindCSS and HTMX.
• Litestar with OAuth2 Example - Example of using Litestar with OAuth2.