from sanic import Sanic from sanic import response from signal import signal, SIGINT import asyncio import uvloop app = Sanic(__name__) @app.route("/") async def test(request): return response.json({"answer": "42"}) asyncio.set_event_loop(uvloop.new_event_loop()) server = app.create_server(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000) loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() task = asyncio.ensure_future(server) signal(SIGINT, lambda s, f: loop.stop()) try: loop.run_forever() except: loop.stop()