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Python API Development Fundamentals

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

By: 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 learned how to use Flask-JWT-Extended for access control. This is an important and fundamental feature that almost all online platforms will require. At the end of the chapter, we touched on the topic of maintaining the liveliness of a token. This is advanced but applicable knowledge that you will use in developing real-life RESTful APIs. In the next chapter, we will start to talk about data verification.