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Python API Development Fundamentals

By : Jack Chan, Ray Chung, Jack Huang
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Python API Development Fundamentals

By: Jack Chan, Ray Chung, Jack Huang

Overview of this book

Python is a flexible language that can be used for much more than just script development. By knowing the Python RESTful APIs work, you can build a powerful backend for web applications and mobile applications using Python. You'll take your first steps by building a simple API and learning how the frontend web interface can communicate with the backend. You'll also learn how to serialize and deserialize objects using the marshmallow library. Then, you'll learn how to authenticate and authorize users using Flask-JWT. You'll also learn how to enhance your APIs by adding useful features, such as email, image upload, searching, and pagination. You'll wrap up the whole book by deploying your APIs to the cloud. By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence and skill to leverage the power of RESTful APIs and Python to build efficient web applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we built the RESTful API using the Flask-RESTful package. By doing this, you have seen how simple and easy it is to perform such tasks. We are building our project in a structural manner, which allows us to easily extend the project in the subsequent chapters. In this chapter, we created the models and resources folder; we will be developing more models and resources later in this book. So far, our food recipe-sharing platform, Smilecook, is capable of performing CRUD, as well as setting the publish status of the recipe. We have also tested the application to make sure it is working properly. Finally, you started to realize the power of Postman, which greatly automates the whole testing process. In the next chapter, we will learn about how to perform data validation.