Python API Development Fundamentals

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 ...