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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

Using blueprints effectively

If you already know what a blueprint is, imagine for a moment that you do not. As we are building out our application and trying to structure our code base in a logical and maintainable pattern, we realize that we need to constantly pass around our app object:

from some.location import app
@app.route("/my/stuff")
async def stuff_handler(...):
    ...
@app.route("/my/profile")
async def profile_handler(...):
    ...

This can become very tedious if we need to make changes to our endpoints. You can imagine a scenario where we would need to update a bunch of separate files to duplicate the same change over and over again.

Perhaps more frustratingly, we might end up in a scenario where we have circular imports:

# server.py
from user import *
app = Sanic(...)
# user.py
from server import app
@app.route("/user")
...

Blueprints solve both of these problems and allow us to abstract...