HXhxl·Oct 25, 2022
A slight name-conflict with sanic: https://github.com/sanic-org/sanic
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Accelerate your web app development | Build fast. Run fast.
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22 sourcesyou should take a look at sanic https://github.com/sanic-org/sanic
It's very popular among people writing async web services in python. It's like 10% faster than fast api.
In Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?Async Python 3.6+ Web Server and Framework
2 points · Open discussionFor people interested in a high-performance Python asyncio web server, sanic (https://github.com/huge-success/sanic) is also worth evaluating.
In Kore4 and PythonDjango is a better monolithic framework. But in Python world users will be equally productive with any WSGI or ASGI based framework.
With Django 3.0 alpha there is an issue with orm which is still not async, so not sure how mixing async code with sync code will behave.
Personally I haven't moved to any async framework in Python for project which need db access until the database adapters like psycopg and orm like sqlalchemy support them completely.
Now a days since most of my startup work involves developing REST API using Python backend without worrying about templates prefer micro framework like Flask [1], bottle [2], web.py [3], Pyramid [4], TurboGears 2 [5], cherrypy [6] etc.
For async might use uvloop based micro framework like sanic [7], quart [8], or starlette [9] vibora [10] etc.
These days in development we try to use these frame
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work more like a library than framework per se. The difference is using them as library our code call library code and it's inline with one of the zen of python "Explicit is better than implicit".
[1] https://palletsprojects.com/p/flask/
[2] https://bottlepy.org/
[3] http://webpy.org/
[4] https://trypyramid.com/
[5] https://turbogears.org/
[6] https://cherrypy.org/
[7] https://github.com/huge-success/sanic
[8] https://pgjones.gitlab.io/quart/
[9] https://www.starlette.io/
[10] https://vibora.io/
After glancing over the README here are a few of the other things I take a look at.
The "contributors" tab on GitHub helps get an idea for the health of the project: how long has it been actively maintained? Who did most of the work? https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/graphs/contributors
For software libraries, I like looking at the brand new "used by" tab - https://github.com/huge-success/sanic/network/dependents - in addition to indicating project health it's also a great source of examples to look at later when I'm trying to figure out how to do advanced things with the library.
I love reading through the CI configuration - .travis.yml or .circleci/config.yml - because at the very least it shows what it takes to run the test suite, and often I'll pick up some fun new CI and automation tricks.
I use GitHub code search extensively: some
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times for searching within the project, but I'll also search the whole of GitHub for examples of people doing something I want to do with the library: https://github.com/search?q=sanic+cookies&type=Code
It's a bit unfortunate that they use the same name as the Python3 async web framework Sanic:
https://github.com/huge-success/sanic/
https://sanicframework.org/
They won't help each other in web searches, and considering they are using "sanic" project name on github too, it might confuse people some more.
In Sanic – all-in-one tool to develop, build, and deploy Docker/Kubernetes projectsThe name is rather unfortunate as there is already a software project with that name: Sanic, Python async web framework.
https://github.com/huge-success/sanic
In Show HN: Sanic – A Comprehensive CLI for KubernetesFor those who are looking for web frameworks that use async I/O:
https://github.com/huge-success/sanic
https://gitlab.com/pgjones/quart
In Molten: A modern Python (3.6+) web frameworkHere are some popular ones (10k stars or so):
- https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
- https://github.com/channelcat/sanic
- https://github.com/pypa/pipenv
- https://github.com/google/python-fire
- https://github.com/explosion/spaCy
In Ask HN: What are the best open source GitHub repos using python 3?+1 been using sanic for a couple years, it's an awesome easily grokable micro framework. Sanic is flask-like in a lot of places where a quick perusal of the quart code makes it look like they go an extra mile on the flask scale, but maybe take up some complexity in that process. Up to the consumer on which trade off they pick. I tend to think that since there is no WSGI equivalent for asyncio (something people are thinking about https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/issues/761) you want a slightly different model than flask anyway.
In Show HN: HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web MicroframeworkIsn't this what sanic was supposed to be?
https://github.com/channelcat/sanic
In Show HN: HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework> Why does anyone write web apps in Python?
The new generation of Python web frameworks is pretty fast (check out Sanic[0][1] for example), Python has a huge growing ecosystem, you get rapid time to marked and if you find some part of your application to be the bottleneck, you can replace it with C/Rust, which you probably don't need, because your company won't ever scale as far.
[0] https://github.com/channelcat/sanic
[1] https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/
In Why we switched from Python to GoSeen Sanic[1] yet? I've become a fan... works well with asyncpg[2] too.
[1]: https://github.com/channelcat/sanic
[2]: https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg
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