{"id": "changelog:asgi", "page": "changelog", "ref": "asgi", "title": "ASGI", "content": "ASGI  is the Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface standard. I've been wanting to convert Datasette into an ASGI application for over a year -  Port Datasette to ASGI #272  tracks thirteen months of intermittent development - but with Datasette 0.29 the change is finally released. This also means Datasette now runs on top of  Uvicorn  and no longer depends on  Sanic . \n                 I wrote about the significance of this change in  Porting Datasette to ASGI, and Turtles all the way down . \n                 The most exciting consequence of this change is that Datasette plugins can now take advantage of the ASGI standard.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\", \"0.29 (2019-07-07)\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://asgi.readthedocs.io/\", \"label\": \"ASGI\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/272\", \"label\": \"Port Datasette to ASGI #272\"}, {\"href\": \"https://www.uvicorn.org/\", \"label\": \"Uvicorn\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/huge-success/sanic\", \"label\": \"Sanic\"}, {\"href\": \"https://simonwillison.net/2019/Jun/23/datasette-asgi/\", \"label\": \"Porting Datasette to ASGI, and Turtles all the way down\"}]"}