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How to Create a REST API with Falcon, The no-nonsense, minimalist web framework for Python developers

Esther Vaati
5 min readMar 16, 2022

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An Introduction to the Falcon Framework

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Falcon is a light-weight Python web API framework for building high-performance microservices, app backends, and higher-level frameworks. This tutorial will give an introduction to Falcon, its major features, and how to install Falcon. We’ll also build a simple RESTful API with Falcon.

Advantages of Falcon Compared to Other Frameworks

According to the , some of the features of Falcon that make it superior to other Python frameworks include:

Speed — Falcon requests work several times faster than most other Python frameworks. Additionally, Falcon works well when combined with , giving it an extra speed boost; it also works well with .

Flexibility — Falcon leaves a lot of the implementation details to you, the developer; hence there’s freedom to customize your implementation.

Ease of debugging — In Falcon, logic paths are understandable and straightforward, which makes it easier to reason with the code and perform code debugging.

Features

  • Highly-optimized code base

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Esther Vaati
Esther Vaati

Written by Esther Vaati

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