sanic/README.md

# Sanic

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Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast.  It's based on the work done by the amazing folks at magicstack, and was inspired by this article: https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/.

On top of being Flask-like, Sanic supports async request handlers.  This means you can use the new shiny async/await syntax from Python 3.5, making your code non-blocking and speedy.

## Benchmarks

All tests were run on an AWS medium instance running ubuntu, using 1 process.  Each script delivered a small JSON response and was tested with wrk using 100 connections.  Pypy was tested for Falcon and Flask but did not speed up requests.



| Server  | Implementation      | Requests/sec | Avg Latency |
| ------- | ------------------- | ------------:| -----------:|
| Sanic   | Python 3.5 + uvloop |       33,342 |      2.96ms |
| Wheezy  | gunicorn + meinheld |       20,244 |      4.94ms |
| Falcon  | gunicorn + meinheld |       18,972 |      5.27ms |
| Bottle  | gunicorn + meinheld |       13,596 |      7.36ms |
| Flask   | gunicorn + meinheld |        4,988 |     20.08ms |
| Kyoukai | Python 3.5 + uvloop |        3,889 |     27.44ms |
| Aiohttp | Python 3.5 + uvloop |        2,979 |     33.42ms |
| Tornado | Python 3.5          |        2,138 |     46.66ms |

## Hello World

```python
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="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

```

## Installation
 * `python -m pip install sanic`

## Documentation
 * [Getting started](docs/getting_started.md)
 * [Request Data](docs/request_data.md)
 * [Routing](docs/routing.md)
 * [Middleware](docs/middleware.md)
 * [Exceptions](docs/exceptions.md)
 * [Blueprints](docs/blueprints.md)
 * [Class Based Views](docs/class_based_views.md)
 * [Cookies](docs/cookies.md)
 * [Static Files](docs/static_files.md)
 * [Deploying](docs/deploying.md)
 * [Contributing](docs/contributing.md)
 * [License](LICENSE)

## TODO:
 * Streamed file processing
 * File output
 * Examples of integrations with 3rd-party modules
 * RESTful router

## Limitations:
 * No wheels for uvloop and httptools on Windows :(

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