Table Of Contents

• Cylinder
  • Philosophy
  • Quickstart
  • Routing basics
    • Implementing pages
    • Why there are no index files
    • HTTP method routing
    • How requests are matched
    • Static files
    • Dynamic paths / dynamic route handling
      • Accessing the remaining path
  • Request lifecycle
    • The request and response objects
    • Handler Parameters
    • Hooks
  • Error handling
    • abort()
    • Exception handlers
    • Uncaught Exceptions
    • abort_extra
    • Redirects
  • Application composition
    • Extra parameters on main()
    • Configuration and Environments
    • HTML templates and Jinja2
    • databases / SQLAlchemy
    • Sessions
    • The g object
  • Operations and development
    • Testing
    • Import caching and reload behavior
    • Logging configuration
    • request_id_header
    • Streaming
      • Streaming response bodies
      • Streaming request bodies
    • Safeguards
      • Shallow requests in app_map() and early hooks
      • Handlers must return the same response object
      • Why these rules exist
    • Thread safety
    • Type hints and editor support

General

• Contributing to Plasma Cylinder