Sanic #

Overview #

Sanic is a Python 3.5 web server which is so fast. Sanic is asynchronous request handler. Meaning, we can use new async/await syntax from Python 3.5 with making our code non-blocking and very fast.

Installation #

Sanic like other Python packages can be installed via pip.

$ pip install sanic

Usage example #

To figure out how to get started quickly we can write very simple example.

from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.response import json

app = Sanic()

@app.route("/")
async def test(request):
    return json({"hello": "world"})

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host="127.0.0.1", port=8000)

Features #

Sanic offers these basic features like other frameworks.

1. Request handling
2. Routing
3. Middleware
4. Exceptions
5. Blueprints
6. Class based views
7. Cookies
8. Static file serving

Benchmarks #

Benchmarks have done with other Python web servers.

References #

1. https://github.com/channelcat/sanic
2. https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/
3. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sanic/0.1.9