Bocadillo

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Nested applications

Bocadillo provides a simple mounting mechanism which allows you to make ASGI apps available at a specific URL prefix.

This applies not only to Bocadillo applications, but to any ASGI-compliant application. The entire ASGI ecosystem is literally just a .mount() away!

Application splitting

Nested Bocadillo applications can be used to split a project into smaller applications and then tie them all together in a single root application.

For example, if our project has a mix of REST API and HTML pages, we can separate the REST API endpoints in an isolated app:

# myproject/api.py
from bocadillo import App

api = App()

@api.route("/todos")
async def get_todos(req, res):
    res.json = [{"title": "Make me a sandwich", "done": False}]

and then mount it onto a root application that also exposes the HTML home page:

# myproject/app.py
from bocadillo import App
from .api import api

app = App()
app.mount("/api", api)

@app.route("/")
async def home(req, res):
    res.html = "<h1>Todo list</h1>"

With this setup, a request to GET /api/todos will return the list of todos.

CAVEAT

Mounted applications are isolated from their parent: they do not share middleware or error handlers. Besides, lifespan event handlers will only be called on the root application, i.e. the one that is eventually by the ASGI web server.

If you only want to split routes into dedicated files, take a look at Routers in the next section.

Third-party ASGI apps

In fact, any application that exposes the ASGI interface can be passed to .mount(). This is the beauty of ASGI: its standard interface enables interoperability between otherwise incompatible applications.

As a result, any library that provides an ASGI adapter can be used with Bocadillo.

Here are just a few examples:

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