{"categories":[{"label":"Python Modules","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-libraries-python-modules/15"},{"label":"Dynamic Content","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http-dynamic-content/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"A lightweight Python web framework designed for Google App Engine that provides URI routing, exception handling, and request/response management without external dependencies.","skillfed_tags":["legacy","app-engine"],"use_cases":["Maintaining or extending existing Google App Engine applications originally built with webapp2.","Learning how early Python web frameworks structured routing and request handling before modern frameworks emerged.","Running legacy code that depends on webapp2 in environments where dependency updates are not feasible."],"what_it_does":"webapp2 is a minimal web framework built as an improved version of Google App Engine's original webapp module. It provides core web request handling with URI routing, exception handling, and response objects, designed to work both within App Engine and as a standalone Python web framework. The package has no runtime dependencies and aims for simplicity in application structure.\n\nThe framework was last updated in 2012-09-28 and is now abandoned, with no active maintenance or repository activity. While it remains available on PyPI and receives modest downloads, it predates modern Python web standards and practices. It should be considered a legacy framework suitable only for maintaining existing applications or learning historical web framework design, not for new projects.","worth_installing":"No. webapp2 is abandoned (last release 2012-09-28) with no maintenance signals and outdated design patterns. Install only if maintaining an existing application that already depends on it. For new projects, use a maintained web framework."},"id":"webapp2","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/webapp2","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/webapp2.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/webapp2/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2012-09-28","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"webapp2","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Taking Google App Engine's webapp to the next level!"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":221492,"position":9275,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"2.5.2"}