Falcon and uWSGI

Falcon is faster than flask, uWSGi uWSGI is faster than Gunicorn.
Test based on pceuropa/testing-rest-api

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

  requirements.txt      pythons requirements packages 
  main.py               falcon app
  uwsgi.ini             contains config file needed to run app by uwsgi
  tests.py              tests based on pytest

REQUIREMENTS

Python 3+
pytest # to tests

INSTALATION

virtualenv -p python3 venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

CONFIGURATION

Configuration is in uwsgi.ini. Only Set proper patch and ready to run.

RUN

Without uwsgi
```
python3 main.py
```

With uwsgi but by command. Please run this command on path of application

uwsgi --http :8000 --wsgi-file main.py --callable app -H $(pwd)/venv/

With uwsgi with help ini file. Good way to setup systemd
```
uwsgi uwsgi.ini
```

Tests

mytest test.py -v

Bonus

Nginx configuration

location / {
    proxy_pass       http://localhost:8000;
    proxy_set_header Host      $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}

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