Build And Deploy A REST API with Flask

This is code for a series of videos in which we look at the various concepts involved when building a REST API with Flask. We also look at the various extensions involved while building Flask applications.

Topics

• [How to set up a Flask API with Flask-RESTX]
• Databases with Flask-SQLAlchemy
• JWT Authentication with Flask-JWT-Extended
• Environment variables with Python-Decouple
• Database migrations with Flask-Migrate
• How to write Unit Tests with Unittest and PyTest
• Documenting REST APIs with SwaggerUI and Flask-RESTX
• Error Handling with Werkzeug

How to run the project

Clone the project Repository

git clone https://github.com/jod35/Buildndeploy-A-REST-API-With-Flask.git

Enter the project folder and create a virtual environment

$ cd https://github.com/jod35/Build-And-Deploy-A-REST-API-With-Flask 

$ python -m venv env 

Activate the virtual environment

$ source env/bin/actvate #On linux Or Unix

$ source env/Scripts/activate #On Windows 
 

Install all requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the project in development

$ export FLASK_APP=api/

$ export FLASK_DEBUG=1

$ flask run

Or

python runserver.py