Advanced Alchemy · Litestar Plugins

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A carefully crafted, thoroughly tested, optimized companion library for SQLAlchemy, offering:
!IMPORTANT Check out the installation guide in our official documentation!
Advanced Alchemy includes a set of asynchronous and synchronous repository classes for easy CRUD operations on your SQLAlchemy models.
For a full standalone example, see the sample here
Advanced Alchemy includes an additional service class to make working with a repository easier. This class is designed to accept data as a dictionary or SQLAlchemy model, and it will handle the type conversions for you.
Advanced Alchemy works with nearly all Python web frameworks. Several helpers for popular libraries are included, and additional PRs to support others are welcomed.
Advanced Alchemy is the official SQLAlchemy integration for Litestar.
In addition to installing with pip install advanced-alchemy, it can also be installed as a Litestar extra with pip install litestar[sqlalchemy].
For a full Litestar example, check here
For a full Flask example, see here
For a full FastAPI example with optional CLI integration, see here
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