Advanced REST APIs with Flask and Python

Table of contents

1. Chapter 1 : Introduction
   1. Introduction to this section
   2. Our project and endpoints
   3. Reviewing the beginner course code
   4. Simplifying our error handling
   5. Refactoring our resources
   6. Should we have unique names?
   7. Adding basic type hinting
   8. Adding custom JSON types
   9. Using the current class as a type hint
   10. Using Black for code formatting
   11. Improving errors with constants
   12. @classmethod across the board
   13. Testing our API with Postman
   14. Conclusion of this section
2. Chapter 2 : Serialization with Marshmallow
   1. Introduction to this section
   2. Serialization with Marshmallow
   3. Deserialization with Marshmallow
   4. Migrating from virtualenv to Pipenv
   5. Using vanilla Marshmallow with the API
   6. Introduction to Flask-Marshmallow
   7. Adding items to our REST API
   8. Adding stores to our REST API
   9. Deduplicating error handling
   10. Conclusion of this section
3. Chapter 3 : E-mail confirmations
   1. Introduction to this section
   2. Introduction to e-mail confirmation
   3. Adding an activated property
   4. Activating users manually
   5. Telling users, they are active
   6. Setting up Mailgun
   7. Sending e-mails with Mailgun (Part 1)
   8. Sending e-mails with Mailgun (Part 2)
   9. Creating our Mailgun library file
   10. Using .env files in Flask
   11. Adding more configuration to. Env
   12. Error handling in Mailgun
   13. Conclusion of this section
4. Chapter 4 : Advanced e-mail confirmation
   1. Introduction to this section
   2. Creating the Confirmation Model
   3. Changes in our User Model
   4. Creating our Confirmation Resource
   5. Updating our User Resource
   6. Adding the last confirmation to the user schema
   7. Fixing our app.py
   8. Cross-resource dependencies are (generally) bad
   9. What are localisation and internationalisation?
   10. Storing strings in config files
   11. Creating a simple translation library
   12. Updating our resources to use translations
   13. Adding a new language to our API
   14. What is Flask-Babel?
   15. Common pitfalls and advice
   16. Conclusion of this section
5. Chapter 5 : Postman documentation and tests
   1. Introduction to this section
   2. Collection and request descriptions
   3. Recap of Postman environments
   4. JavaScript tests in Postman
   5. Running entire collections in Postman
   6. Adding example requests and responses
   7. Previewing our Postman documentation
   8. Publishing our documentation page
   9. More options for publishing documentation
   10. Conclusion of this section
6. Chapter 6 : Image uploads
   1. Introduction to this section
   2. Installing Flask-Uploads
   3. Config files in Flask
   4. What are wsgi and Werkzeug?
   5. Creating our image helper library
   6. Creating our image schema
   7. Creating our image upload resource
   8. Trying out our image upload
   9. Retrieving and deleting images
   10. Another example: user avatars
   11. Adding the avatar resource
   12. Conclusion of this section
7. Chapter 7 : Database migrations
   1. Introduction to this section
   2. What's in our starter code?
   3. Connecting to our remote database
   4. Initialising Flask-Migrate and Alembic
   5. Creating our initial table structure
   6. Our first database migration
   7. Checking the Alembic script (important!)
   8. Adding a new column with migrations
   9. Problems that can happen while migrating
   10. A word of caution!
   11. Defining a SQLAlchemy naming convention
   12. When should you read documentation?
   13. Conclusion of this section
8. Chapter 8 : Third party login with OAuth
   1. Introduction to this lecture
   2. Introduction to OAuth 2.0
   3. What's in our starter code?
   4. Creating a GitHub OAuth App
   5. Flask-OAuthlib
   6. Setting up our GitHub client
   7. Our GithubLogin resource
   8. What is Flask's g?
   9. What is a tokengetter?
   10. Finishing our GithubAuthorize resource
   11. Adding some error handling
   12. Setting user passwords
   13. Using url_for with Flask-RESTful
   14. Conclusion of this section
9. Chapter 9 : Payments with Stripe
   1. Introduction to this section
   2. Setting up our Stripe account
   3. What's in our starter code?
   4. Where do users pay?
   5. After payment: receiving order data
   6. Creating our OrderModel
   7. Many-to-many relationships with SQLAlchemy
   8. Using the Association Object in our Resource
   9. Charging orders with Stripe
   10. Calculating the amount and description
   11. Testing our OrderResource
   12. Creating a way to view existing orders
   13. When things go wrong: error handling in Stripe
   14. Security considerations in payments
   15. Conclusion of this section
10. Chapter 10 : Bonus section
    1. Conclusion of the course