From f39d00da3112d1227cfc0fbadeedc6cf5c1dd56c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinta Chen Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:32:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] audit: sweep Web Frameworks to the shortlist cap First Audit of the section; maintainer adjudicated 2026-08-16 at the preview review, flipping pyramid to keep (enters as Synchronous Challenger beside fasthtml; the three Obvious slots stay flask, django, bottle). Both tiers reordered by downloads/month per the ordering rule. Removed (downloads are PyPI last-30-day via BigQuery, fetched 2026-08-16): - masonite (26.4K/month): no adoption; Laravel-style niche - microdot (10.4K/month): MicroPython-targeted, genuinely small audience - robyn (50.9K/month): installs never followed the buzz Co-Authored-By: Claude --- README.md | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0857aed4..0d5a8d8d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -236,23 +236,20 @@ _Libraries for building recommender systems._ _Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see [Web APIs](#web-apis)._ - Synchronous - - [bottle](https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle) - A fast and simple micro-framework distributed as a single file with no dependencies. - - [django](https://github.com/django/django) - The most popular web framework in Python. - - [awesome-django](https://github.com/wsvincent/awesome-django) - [flask](https://github.com/pallets/flask) - A microframework for Python. - [awesome-flask](https://github.com/humiaozuzu/awesome-flask) + - [django](https://github.com/django/django) - The most popular web framework in Python. + - [awesome-django](https://github.com/wsvincent/awesome-django) + - [bottle](https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle) - A fast and simple micro-framework distributed as a single file with no dependencies. - [pyramid](https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid) - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework. - [awesome-pyramid](https://github.com/uralbash/awesome-pyramid) - [fasthtml](https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/fasthtml) - The fastest way to create an HTML app. - [awesome-fasthtml](https://github.com/amosgyamfi/awesome-fasthtml) - - [masonite](https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite) - The modern and developer centric Python web framework. - Asynchronous - - [litestar](https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar) - Production-ready, capable and extensible ASGI Web framework. - - [microdot](https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/microdot) - The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython. - - [reflex](https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex) - A framework for building reactive, full-stack web applications entirely with Python. - - [robyn](https://github.com/sparckles/Robyn) - A high-performance async Python web framework with a Rust runtime. - [starlette](https://github.com/Kludex/starlette) - A lightweight ASGI framework and toolkit for building high-performance async services. - [tornado](https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado) - A web framework and asynchronous networking library. + - [litestar](https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar) - Production-ready, capable and extensible ASGI Web framework. + - [reflex](https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex) - A framework for building reactive, full-stack web applications entirely with Python. ### Web APIs