Contributing

Thank you for your interest! Sanic is always looking for contributors. If you don’t feel comfortable contributing code, adding docstrings to the source files is very appreciated.

Running tests

• python -m pip install pytest
• python -m pytest tests

Documentation

Sanic’s documentation is built using sphinx. Guides are written in Markdown and can be found in the docs folder, while the module reference is automatically generated using sphinx-apidoc.

To generate the documentation from scratch:

sphinx-apidoc -fo docs/_api/ sanic
sphinx-build -b html docs docs/_build

The HTML documentation will be created in the docs/_build folder.

Warning

One of the main goals of Sanic is speed. Code that lowers the performance of Sanic without significant gains in usability, security, or features may not be merged. Please don’t let this intimidate you! If you have any concerns about an idea, open an issue for discussion and help.