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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 have learned about and implemented caching and rate-limiting functions in our Smilecook API. Such functions make our APIs even more efficient. Our Smilecook application is saving the cache in application memory, though, which means the cache will be gone after a server reboot. To address this, we can work with Redis or Memcached in the future, which can persist the cache even after a server reboot. They also support sharing the cache with multiple servers. This is something we encourage you to explore outside of this book. The most important thing at the moment is for you to learn all the fundamental concepts covered in this book. So, later, if you want to extend to more advanced implementation, it shouldn't be too hard for you.

In the next and final chapter, we will build the Smilecook frontend client for you to work with the backend API. Through this frontend client, we will understand the whole picture better. You will see how the frontend and...