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Python Web Development with Sanic

By : Adam Hopkins
Book Image

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

Summary

This chapter covered a lot of material on taking an HTTP request and turning it into something usable. At the core of a web framework is its ability to translate a raw request into an actionable handler. We learned about how Sanic does this and how we can use HTTP methods, good API design principles, paths, path parameter extraction, and static content to build useful applications. As we learned earlier in this book, a little bit of upfront planning goes a long way. Before putting too much code together, it is really helpful to think about the tools HTTP offers, and how Sanic allows us to take advantage of those features.

If we did a good job in Chapter 2, Organizing a Project, of setting up directories, it should be very easy for us to loosely mirror that structure and nest blueprints to match our intended API design.

There are some key takeaways from this chapter. You should purposely, and thoughtfully, design your API endpoint paths—using nouns—that point...