Contents CHAPTER 1 What People are Saying “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “I’m loving #falconframework gevent • Minimal attack surface for writing secure APIs • 100% code coverage with a comprehensive test suite • Only depends on six and mimeparse • Supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 • Compatible your app without having to reinstall the package: $ cd falcon $ pip install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running

}', CatalogItem()) What People are Saying “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “I’m loving #falconframework like gevent Minimal attack surface for writing secure APIs 100% code coverage with a comprehensive test suite Only depends on six and mimeparse Supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 Compatible with install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running pytest: $ cd falcon $ pip install -r tools/test-requires $ pytest tests

Contents CHAPTER 1 What People are Saying “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “I’m loving #falconframework gevent • Minimal attack surface for writing secure APIs • 100% code coverage with a comprehensive test suite • Only depends on six and mimeparse • Supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.6 • Compatible your app without having to reinstall the package: $ cd falcon $ pip install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running

}', CatalogItem()) What People are Saying “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “I’m loving #falconframework like gevent Minimal attack surface for writing secure APIs 100% code coverage with a comprehensive test suite Only depends on six and mimeparse Supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.6 Compatible with your app without having to reinstall the package: $ cd falcon $ pip install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running

(easily half of our original [framework] code).” “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “Falcon is rock solid gevent • Minimal attack surface for writing secure APIs • 100% code coverage with a comprehensive test suite • Only depends on six and mimeparse • Supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.6 • Compatible your app without having to reinstall the package: $ cd falcon $ pip install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running

(easily half of our original [framework] code).” “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “Falcon is rock solid gevent • Minimal attack surface for writing secure APIs • 100% code coverage with a comprehensive test suite • No dependencies on other Python packages • Supports Python 3.5+ • Compatible with PyPy Documentation Falcon Documentation, Release 3.0.0b2 $ cd falcon $ pip install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running

(easily half of our original [framework] code).” “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “Falcon is rock solid Documentation Falcon Documentation, Release 3.0.0 $ cd falcon $ pip install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running you might try Waitress: $ pip install requests waitress $ waitress-serve --port=8000 things:app To test this example go to the another terminal and run: $ http localhost:8000/1/things authorization:custom-token

(easily half of our original [framework] code).” “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “Falcon is rock solid Documentation Falcon Documentation, Release 3.0.1 $ cd falcon $ pip install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running you might try Waitress: $ pip install requests waitress $ waitress-serve --port=8000 things:app To test this example go to the another terminal and run: $ http localhost:8000/1/things authorization:custom-token

Contents CHAPTER 1 What People are Saying “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “Falcon is rock solid gevent • Minimal attack surface for writing secure APIs • 100% code coverage with a comprehensive test suite • Only depends on six and mimeparse • Supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.6 • Compatible your app without having to reinstall the package: $ cd falcon $ pip install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running

Contents CHAPTER 1 What People are Saying “Falcon looks great so far. I hacked together a quick test for a tiny server of mine and was ~40% faster with only 20 minutes of work.” “Falcon is rock solid gevent • Minimal attack surface for writing secure APIs • 100% code coverage with a comprehensive test suite • Only depends on six and mimeparse • Supports Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.6 • Compatible your app without having to reinstall the package: $ cd falcon $ pip install -e . You can manually test changes to the Falcon framework by switching to the directory of the cloned repo and then running