Add ASGI-Sessions

[klen]

Add ASGI-Sessions

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What is this project?

ASGI-Sessions - Signed Cookie-Based HTTP sessions for ASGI applications (supports asyncio/trio libs)

Do you know about other similar projects?

yes

If so, how is this one different?

It supports not only asyncio, but trio library as well

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[florimondmanca]

Hello! Thanks, this is interesting.

How does this compare with Starlette's SessionMiddleware? Are there missing features you've been wanting there?

I understand that you are developing asgi-tools, would you have some more background on the motivation behind that?

(Just trying to understand motivations. I believe initially Starlette was aimed at becoming a foundational, no-dependencies, ASGI-centric framework, so always curious about new tacks with that role. :-) If it's mostly out of personal curiosity or learning I can totally understand — that's where I came from as well. Just obviously a bit reluctant to include things in this list that might end up being close-duplicates and not necessarily serving the ecosystem as a whole.)

Thanks!

[klen]

Obviously Starlette's SessionMiddleware depends on Starlette itself. ASGI-Sessions based on ASGI-Tools which one much smaller (ASGI-Tools not going to include support template engine, graphql, databases, authentication and etc support).

The most important thing in my opinion ASGI-Tools supports Trio too (natively) (Startlette is not for the current moment).

Besides that, the ASGI-Sessions uses PyJWT and only writes cookies when a user session has been changed. Starlette's SessionMiddleware writes the cookie for every request.

That's it for the ASGI-Sessions for ASGI-Tools I can say much more, but it's an offtopic

[euri10]

interesting as well !