Flask: Quart is now a Pallets project

NewsBot · 15 August 2024 02:18

A new Flask blog post/announcement has been posted!

Quart, an ASGI re-implementation of the Flask API has joined the Pallets organization. This means that future development will be under the Pallets governance by the Pallets maintainers.

Our long term aim is to merge Quart and Flask to bring ASGI support directly to Flask. This aim has significant technical obstacles, as outlined in this post or this talk. However, this change clears governance obstacles and brings the Quart and Flask maintainers closer together.

Introduction to Quart

Quart was developed from a desire to use asyncio and the async/await keywords in Flask. Which at the time of Quart's inception was not possible in Flask nor was it possible to add support. Instead Quart was developed as a reimplementation of Flask's API using async/await (learn more from this talk). Later Quart...

Get the full details here: Pallets