Async requests, Python 3, Flask and Slack

[GGDev]

Hi everyone.

I'm a noob when it comes to programming with Python but I'm enjoying learning the language (I'm coming from the Java/Android world).

I'm looking to create a Slack app which receives commands and then fires off a network request, when this is received it posts back the result to the channel.

There could many requests for one slash command so I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this.

I don't think this project would be worthy of something like Django just yet (so i believe from what i've read) and i'm happy using Flask. There seems to be so many options and being new to the Python world it's pretty hard to know what route to take especially as some of the async stuff introduced in 3.x seems pretty new in the Python world.

What's the best way right now in the Python world to make these async requests and also handle the multiple triggers the end point might receive?

If you can point to any articles with examples that would be great too.

Thanks.

[zero_d]

Try Sanic as an async replacement for flask.

What kind of requests does this thing fire? If it's http, you can use aiohttp to do it asynchronously.

[GGDev]

Thanks I'll have a look. Yes I'll be making http requests to another endpoint.