Hands-on Intro to aiohttp¶
Another tutorial proposal, co-written with Andrew Svetlov. We submitted this to PyCon US 2019, and it was accepted.
Acknowledgement¶
Thanks Andrew Svetlov for working with me on this proposal and tutorial. Honestly, I don’t feel like I’ll be able to give this tutorial on my own.
Proposal¶
The following was the proposal we submitted to PyCon US 2019.
Title¶
Hands-on Intro to aiohttp
Additional Speakers¶
Andrew Svetlov
Description¶
Asyncio is a relatively new feature in Python, with the async and await syntaxes only recently became proper keywords in Python 3.7. Asyncio allows you to write asynchronous programs in Python. In this tutorial, we’ll introduce you to an asyncio web library called aiohttp.
aiohttp is a library for building web client and server using Python and asyncio. We’ll introduce you to several key features of aiohttp; including routing, session handling, templating, using middlewares, connecting to database, and making HTTP GET/POST requests. We’ll provide best practises in building your aiohttp application, as well as how to write tests for your application.
We’ll use all new Python 3.7 features to build web services with asyncio and aiohttp.
Audience¶
Intermediate/Advanced skill level.
Participants should know how to program in Python, have a GitHub account, know how to commit their work using git and to create pull requests, and understand how REST API works. They should also be familiar with the concept of Python virtual environments and installing Python libraries using pip. Prior to attending the tutorial, participant should have Python 3.7 installed on their laptop.
This tutorial is not suitable for novices or someone new to Programming. For this tutorial, we will deploy the code to Heroku and GitHub. Participant may want to reconsider taking this tutorial if there is anything preventing them from uploading their source code to the cloud services like Heroku or GitHub.
Outline¶
1. Introduction (5 minutes)¶
- Go over the agenda
- Who we are: Python core developers, maintainer and long time user of aiohttp
2. Intro to asyncio (10 minutes)¶
- Explanation and demo of concurrency in Python
3. Intro to aiohttp (10 minutes)¶
- Why use aiohttp
- Provide documentation links: https://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/
- Examples of web apps with aiohttp
4. Hands-on intro to aiohttp server (30 minutes)¶
- Write our first aiohttp web server
- Introduce how to add routes/url
- Introduce how to handle GET and POST requests (useful for serving REST API)
- Provide example of how to handle file upload to the web server
5. Hands-on intro to aiohttp client (20 minutes)¶
- Write our first aiohttp client
- Introduce how to make GET and POST requests (useful for making REST API calls)
- Provide example of how to submit form and file upload
- Provide example of how to add request headers
6. Hands-on intro to HTML template with aiohttp (30 minutes)¶
- Introduce aiohttp-jinja2 renderer, and use it in the web server
- Provide example on how to structure the project (separating Python codebase and HTML templates directory)
- Documentation: http://aiohttp_jinja2.readthedocs.org/
7. Hands-on intro to middlewares (20 minutes)¶
- Introduce the concept of middleware, and when to use them
- Introduce how to add middleware to aiohttp server
- Provide example of error handling using middleware
- Documentation: https://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/web_advanced.html#aiohttp-web-middlewares
8. Hands-on intro to session handling (20 minutes)¶
- Introduce how to handle user sessions/logging in and out on the web server
9. Hands-on intro to writing unit tests for aiohttp app (30 minutes)¶
- Writing tests for aiohttp client
- Writing tests for aiohttp server
- Tests using pytest and pytest-asyncio.
