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Python API Development Fundamentals

By : Jack Chan, Ray Chung, Jack Huang
Book Image

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)

9. Building More Features

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Use caching to improve API performance and efficiently get the latest information
  • Add the cache function to the Smilecook application using the Flask-Caching package
  • Implement rate-limiting functionality to an API
  • Use IP address to perform rate limiting

In this chapter, we will cover caching to improve performance and get accustomed to using the rate-limiting function.