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Python Web Development with Sanic

By : Adam Hopkins
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Python Web Development with Sanic

By: Adam Hopkins

Overview of this book

Today’s developers need something more powerful and customizable when it comes to web app development. They require effective tools to build something unique to meet their specific needs, and not simply glue a bunch of things together built by others. This is where Sanic comes into the picture. Built to be unopinionated and scalable, Sanic is a next-generation Python framework and server tuned for high performance. This Sanic guide starts by helping you understand Sanic’s purpose, significance, and use cases. You’ll learn how to spot different issues when building web applications, and how to choose, create, and adapt the right solution to meet your requirements. As you progress, you’ll understand how to use listeners, middleware, and background tasks to customize your application. The book will also take you through real-world examples, so you will walk away with practical knowledge and not just code snippets. By the end of this web development book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to design, build, and deploy high-performance, scalable, and maintainable web applications with the Sanic framework.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1:Getting Started with Sanic
4
Part 2:Hands-On Sanic
11
Part 3:Putting It All together

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "When an exception is raised, Sanic stops the regular route handling process and moves it over to an ErrorHandler instance."

A block of code is set as follows:

@app.exception(PinkElephantError)
async def handle_pink_elephants(request: Request, exception: Exception):
    ...

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

@app.exception(PinkElephantError)
async def handle_pink_elephants(request: Request, exception: Exception):
    ...

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ pip install sanic-testing pytest

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "Log in to the web portal, click on Kubernetes on the main dashboard, and set up a cluster."

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