BASE3

BASE3 is a Python web framework based on Tornado asynchronous networking library, developed by Digital Cube team for internal use. It is also available to the open source community to use however they wish and contribute to.

https://github.com/digital-cube/BASE https://pypi.org/project/base3/

Hello world

import base

@base.route("/")
class IndexHandler(base.Base):

    @base.api()
    async def get(self):
        return {"message": "Hello World"}

if __name__ == "__main__":
    base.run()

BASE principles

Implementation of code reusability for common operations (user management, registration, email sending, PDF generation)
Simple to use and get going
Great for onboarding new programmers (with and without Python experience)
Scalability and microservices

Main features

Methods and recipes for making REST API based application
Bundled Python tools for a seamless start
Python decorators for code reusability and common functionalities
Authentication using different identity providers (Google, Facebook…)
Tool for generating source code templates
Auto-generation of API specification
Flexibility in the scale and purpose of the application (small, template driven websites to complex async microservice application)
Education

Main goals

Making of REST APIs with focus on business and underlying logic rather than the tools themselves
Reduction of the amount of effort needed to bootstrap
Microservice organized architecture with common microservices already written and maintained for current and future projects
Automatic parameter validation with using Models as the schema
Test Driven Development
Use of template engines for simple server-side rendered websites

Technologies

Python 3.x
- tornadoweb (web framework and asynchronous networking library)
Database:
- Currently implemented PostgreSQL using SQLAlchemy ORM, but also other popular open source RDBMS will be supported soon
- CRUD implementation in API calls (with the use of Models as types)
- Reduction of the amount of duplicated code for simple CRUD operations
Redis
Docker

Common services

Implementing and maintaining common microservices to encourage code reuse
Users / Authentication
Sending emails
PDF generator
Blog
Multitenancy