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Sanic is aPython 3.7+ web server and web framework that's written to go fast. It allows the usage of theasync/await syntax added in Python 3.5, which makes your code non-blocking and speedy.

Sanic is also ASGI compliant, so you can deploy it with analternative ASGI webserver.

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The project is maintained by the community, for the community.Contributions are welcome!

The goal of the project is to provide a simple way to get up and running a highly performant HTTP server that is easy to build, to expand, and ultimately to scale.

Check outopen collective to learn more about helping to fund Sanic.

Thanks toLinode for their contribution towards the development and community of Sanic.

pip3 install sanic

Sanic makes use ofuvloop andujson to help with performance. If you do not want to use those packages, simply add an environmental variableSANIC_NO_UVLOOP=true orSANIC_NO_UJSON=true at install time.

$export SANIC_NO_UVLOOP=true$export SANIC_NO_UJSON=true$ pip3 install --no-binary :all: sanic

fromsanicimportSanicfromsanic.responseimportjsonapp=Sanic("my-hello-world-app")@app.route('/')asyncdeftest(request):returnjson({'hello':'world'})if__name__=='__main__':app.run()

Sanic can now be easily run usingsanic hello.app.

[2018-12-30 11:37:41 +0200] [13564] [INFO] Goin' Fast @ http://127.0.0.1:8000[2018-12-30 11:37:41 +0200] [13564] [INFO] Starting worker [13564]

And, we can verify it is working:curl localhost:8000 -i

HTTP/1.1 200 OKConnection: keep-aliveKeep-Alive: 5Content-Length: 17Content-Type: application/json{"hello":"world"}

Now, let's go build something fast!

Minimum Python version is 3.7. If you need Python 3.6 support, please use v20.12LTS.

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