Chapter 8: Running a Sanic Server

In the time that I have been involved with the Sanic project—and specifically, in trying to assist other developers by answering their support questions—there is one topic that perhaps comes up more than any other: deployment. That one word is often bundled with a mixture of confusion and dread.

Building a web application can be a lot of fun. I suspect that I am not alone in finding a tremendous amount of satisfaction in the build process itself. One of the reasons that I love software development in general—and web development in particular—is that I enjoy the almost puzzle-like atmosphere of fitting solutions to a given problem. When the build is done and it is time to launch, that is where the anxiety kicks in.

I cannot overemphasize this next point enough. One of Sanic's biggest assets is its bundled web server. This is not just a gimmick or some side feature to be ignored. The fact that Sanic comes bundled...