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This is nice to see. I don't use anything but http://bottlepy.org these days because I find the decorator approach to be more elegant, but I do have a few Flask-based tools I adopted, and (for instance) patching them to serialize datetimes was a pain.

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Switch to use Bottle for rest API as Flask has dependencies such as Jinja2 that I don't need.

There's also the Falcon framework that claims to be faster and is meant for REST APIs.

http://falconframework.org/

Falcon is great for making API's! I've used it on a few production sites. The main downside is the lack of middlewares for common tasks (e.g. jwt decoding) but you gain in other areas such as being able to use class inheritance to abstract out utility stuff in an elegant way.

Take a look at Hug - it's built on Falcon and adds all the API niceties :-) https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug

You don't need middleware to use JWT with Falcon - just import and use a jwt library.

Oh, I already do that. Thought my statement was plain enough.

Are there any decent Bottle bootstrap/boilerplates that provide some of the basics that every project needs like user accounts and admin?

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