sanic/docs/sanic/index.rst

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.

Sanic is developed `on GitHub <https://github.com/channelcat/sanic/>`_. Contributions are welcome!

Sanic aspires to be simple
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.. code:: 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)