Simon Willison’s Weblog

23rd March 2026

Research Starlette 1.0 skill — Starlette 1.0 Skill offers a concise guide for building robust web applications with Starlette, a lightweight ASGI framework. The accompanying demo showcases a task management app featuring projects, tasks, comments, and labels, illustrating Starlette's flexibility in handling routing, templating (Jinja2), async database operations (aiosqlite), and real-time updates.

See Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills.

Posted 23rd March 2026 at 12:05 am

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