Overview
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Learn how to quickly build, secure, and test a RESTful API using Python and Flask, the Python microframework.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- RESTful APIs with Python 3 and Flask
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Demo project overview
- Creating a new Flask project in PyCharm
- Making a super-simple API example
- Setting up a run configuration
- Testing with Postman
- Restarting your server
- Returning JSON instead of text
- HTTP status codes
- URL parameters
- URL variables and conversion filters
- Adding an ORM (SQLAlchemy)
- Setting up SQLAlchemy
- Creating the ORM model classes
- Seeding the database with the Flask CLI
- Viewing the database in DB Browser for SQLite
- Retrieving a list of planets from the database
- Serializing SQLAlchemy results with Marshmallow
- JSON Web Tokens
- Registering new users
- Authenticating users and passing the token
- Setting up email
- Emailing a lost password
- Retrieving a single planet's details
- Adding planets with a POST method
- Securing the add planet endpoint
- Updating a planet using a PUT method
- Deleting a planet with DEL
- Exporting your project’s requirements file
- Conclusion
