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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

Deploying to production

We have finally made it. After working your way through the application development process, there finally is a product to launch out into the ether of the World Wide Web (WWW). The obvious question then becomes: What are my options? There are really two sets of questions that need to be answered, as follows:

  • First question: Which server should run Sanic?

There are three options: Sanic server, an ASGI server, or Gunicorn.

  • Second question: Where do you want to run the application?

Some typical choices include a bare-metal virtual machine (VM), a containerized image, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS), or a self-hosted or fully managed orchestrated container cluster. Perhaps these choices might make more sense if we put some of the commonly used product names to them, as follows:

Table 8.1 – Examples of common hosting providers and tools

Choosing the right server option

As we stated, there are...