Plugins

Litestar has a plugin system that allows you to extend the functionality of the application. Plugins are passed to the application at startup and can pre-configure the application to manage resources, add routes, and more.

A suite of plugins is available in litestar.plugins.sqlalchemy to support using Litestar with SQLAlchemy, these include:

• litestar.plugins.sqlalchemy.SQLAlchemyPlugin: Full SQLAlchemy support

• litestar.plugins.sqlalchemy.SQLAlchemyInitPlugin: Application tooling

• litestar.plugins.sqlalchemy.SQLAlchemySerializationPlugin: Serialization support

Each of the plugins is discussed in detail in the following sections.

• SQLAlchemy Plugin
• SQLAlchemy Init Plugin
• SQLAlchemy Serialization Plugin