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Flask Graphene SQLAlchemy Tutorial

Welcome to this tutorial. Its objective is to describe step by step how to create a GraphQL API using Python and more specifically the following packages:

• Python Flask
• Python SQLAlchemy
• Python Graphene

The API will expose data coming from an SQLite database stored locally on your machine and the end result will follow the logical architecture described in the schema below:

Workstation set-up

This project has been developed on Linux Ubuntu with Python 3.5. It is using the following third party packages. To install them, open a terminal window, change directory to the project folder and execute the following command:

$ cd flask-graphene-sqlalchemy
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

The following Python packages will be installed:

• flask (version?)
• flask-sqlalchemy (version?)
• graphene (version?)
• sqlalchemy (version?)

Create the database