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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

The process of building a web application

Now that all of the preparations and learning is complete, it is time to write the final web application. Just like the big exam at the end of a semester of hard work and study, it is time to prove what we have been working toward. I always did best in exams when I entered the classroom with a process in my head. I may not know what challenges or problems would await me, but I knew the process that I would use to break apart the issues on my way toward a solution. For me, I found a direct correlation between having a defined process for approaching the course's subject matter and the ultimate grade that I received on the exam.

We need a process. Over the years, I have developed a process that I like to take when building a web application. It is broken down into eight steps:

  1. Define the functionality and workflow.
  2. Decide on the technology stack.
  3. Architect the data structures.
  4. Plan and build the User Interface (UI...