I would say my favorite things about Starlette are: - refined - it feels like all the lessons from DRF were put into Starlette. - lightweight - minimal depend

I would say my favorite things about Starlette are: - refined - it feels like all the lessons from DRF were put into Starlette. - lightweight - minimal dependencies, isn't built specifically for relational data (no orm or other constructs from django that were originally built around models etc) - flexible - has just enough to build the basics without being too opinionated (app/request/response), let's you choose how to handle things like serialization (e.g. add marshmallow) - documentation - like DRF, has very solid documentation. - asgi - the successor to wsgi in many ways, allows things like background tasks so I don't need to set up celery. - authentication/middleware - easy to set up and customize, again clear documentation and api surface There's probably more, such as it support for websockets, push, and more, but for me I'm just running a standard http api (sqwok.im).