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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

Rendering HTML content

The foundation of the web is HTML. It is the media that enables browsers to function; therefore, it is fundamental that a web server is capable of delivering HTML content. Whether building a traditional page-based application or a single-page application, HTML delivery will be necessary. In Chapter 3, Routing and Intaking HTTP Requests, we discussed how we could route web requests to our static files. If you have static HTML files, then this is a great option. But what if you need to generate dynamic HTML for your application?

Since there are numerous ways that this could be accomplished, we will take a look at some of the general patterns that could be used with Sanic.

Delivering HTML files

Generally, serving HTML content is a simple operation. We need to send back a response to the client with HTML text and a header that tells the recipient that the document should be treated as HTML. Ultimately, the raw HTTP response is going to look like this:

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