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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

Setting response headers and cookies

We have talked a lot about headers. They are super important when building web applications and are, generally, a fundamental part of application design. When building your application responses, you will likely find reasons to add handlers to your response objects. This could be for security purposes such as Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) headers, a Content-Security-Policy, or informational and tracking purposes. And, of course, there are cookies, which are their own special kind of headers that receive special treatment in Sanic.

Recall some of the earlier examples (such as the SSE example) where we actually set the headers. It is such an easy and intuitive process, so perhaps you did not even notice. Whenever we build a response object, all we need to do is pass a dictionary with key/value pairs:

text("some message", headers={
    "X-Foobar": "Hello"
})

That's really all there...