What is Sanic?
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. On top of being Flask-like, Sanic supports async request handlers.
Sanic is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
Sanic is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Sanic's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Sanic?
Companies
12 companies reportedly use Sanic in their tech stacks, including Herren, Bonton, and AdCombo.
Developers
66 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Sanic.
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Sanic Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Sanic?
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
AIOHTTP
It is an Async http client/server framework. It supports both client and server Web-Sockets out-of-the-box and avoids Callback.
It provides Web-server with middlewares and pluggable routing.
Tornado
By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
