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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm - Second Edition

By : Bruce M. Van Horn II, Quan Nguyen
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Book Image

Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Bruce M. Van Horn II, Quan Nguyen

Overview of this book

In the quest to develop robust, professional-grade software with Python and meet tight deadlines, it’s crucial to have the best tools at your disposal. In this second edition of Hands-on Application Development with PyCharm, you’ll learn tips and tricks to work at a speed and proficiency previously reserved only for elite developers. To achieve that, you’ll be introduced to PyCharm, the premiere professional integrated development environment for Python programmers among the myriad of IDEs available. Regardless of how Python is utilized, whether for general automation scripting, utility creation, web applications, data analytics, machine learning, or business applications, PyCharm offers tooling that simplifies complex tasks and streamlines common ones. In this book, you'll find everything you need to harness PyCharm's full potential and make the most of Pycharm's productivity shortcuts. The book comprehensively covers topics ranging from installation and customization to web development, database management, and data analysis pipeline development helping you become proficient in Python application development in diverse domains. By the end of this book, you’ll have discovered the remarkable capabilities of PyCharm and how you can achieve a new level of capability and productivity.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Basics of PyCharm
4
Part 2: Improving Your Productivity
9
Part 3: Web Development in PyCharm
15
Part 4: Data Science with PyCharm
19
Part 5: Plugins and Conclusion

Creating a RESTful API with FastAPI

In the last chapter, we learned about a framework called Flask. Flask represents Python in a landscape of traditional web development frameworks designed to generate content on the server and send it back to the browser. This is how we have developed web applications for decades. The 2010s brought a paradigm shift, but it didn’t happen overnight.

In 2004, the term AJAX, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, was coined by Jesse James Garrett in an article titled Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. This article helped popularize the concept and techniques of asynchronous web applications. By 2005, mainstream browsers all supported a new XMLHttpRequest (XHR) web API call. The feature allowed a developer to request pure data instead of a generated HTML page with the data integrated with markup.

The rise of single-page applications (SPAs) in the 2010s was closely associated with the advancement of JavaScript frameworks such...