August 2019
Beginner
482 pages
12h 56m
English
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Chapter 18
What is the REST API?
REST, or REpresentational State Transfer, is a general architecture for APIs interaction that uses the HTTP protocol. The main features of REST-compliant systems are being stateless and their separation of concerns between the client and the server.
What Python packages can be used to build a REST API?
At this point, there are quite a lot of frameworks that can be used to build a REST API in Python. The most popular ones are Flask, Django REST, Hug, Falcon, CherryPy, Quart, and many others. In this book, we're using the FastAPI framework.
What are the key features of the FastAPI framework?
FastAPI has a few unique characteristics. First, it is designed specifically with API in mind, which is different to many ...