Merge pull request #119 from jackfischer/master

Add example with async http requests (Issue #96)

examples/aiohttp_example.py

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+from sanic import Sanic
+from sanic.response import json
+
+import uvloop
+import aiohttp
+
+#Create an event loop manually so that we can use it for both sanic & aiohttp
+loop = uvloop.new_event_loop()
+
+app = Sanic(__name__)
+
+async def fetch(session, url):
+    """
+    Use session object to perform 'get' request on url
+    """
+    async with session.get(url) as response:
+        return await response.json()
+
+
+@app.route("/")
+async def test(request):
+    """
+    Download and serve example JSON
+    """
+    url = "https://api.github.com/repos/channelcat/sanic"
+
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(loop=loop) as session:
+        response = await fetch(session, url)
+        return json(response)
+
+
+app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000, loop=loop)
+