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Python API Development Fundamentals
book

Python API Development Fundamentals

by Jack Chan, Ray Chung, Jack Huang
November 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
372 pages
6h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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2. Starting to Build Our Project

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Build a Restful API service efficiently using the Flask-Restful package
  • Build an extendable Flask project
  • Perform CRUD operations using the model
  • Test RESTful APIs using curl, httpie, and Postman

In this chapter, we will start to work on the food recipe-sharing platform and learn how to create a RESTful API application.

Introduction

Now that we've introduced APIs and learned a bit about HTTP and REST, we will work on building an application (the recipe-sharing app known as Smilecook). In this chapter, we aim to kick-start the actual project development. This is a recipe-sharing platform in which users can create accounts and share ...

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