PYTHON REST API USING FLASK

• This project is a learning project created on the basis of learning backend development from the Udemy course REST APIs with FLASK and PYTHON
• This will consists of normal Flask level backend dev
• Using Flask-JWT, Flask-RESTful for advanced backend operations
• Using Sqlite3 for Database Management
• Using SQLAlchemy for storage simplification
• Developing more secure REST APIs

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have Flask installed in your system, which will act a server for API work
• Python is installed, better to make use of the latest python only, that is Version 3.x
• For advanced operations, we can install Flask-RESTful for using Resource, Api, reqparser
• Flask-JWT is required for user authentication via JWT(JSON Web Token) token

Getting Started

• Make sure you are inside the project directory
• The python project runs on flask, using the command python<version> app.py
• app.py file consist of the basic operation with the usage of Flask
• flask-restful-app consists of the code/new-app.py contains the file with advanced operation with flask-restful and flsak-jwt
• flask-with-sqldb consists of same folders like, code/new-app.py with operation using sqlite3, which is used as our database. So this is not at all working volatile data now. The data is being stored in the data.db file, which is the DataBase file in this case
• Information for advanced operation is inside the Commands.md
• flask-with-sqlalchemy contains the folders having installed Flask, Flask-JWT, Flask-RESTful and Falsk-SQLAlchemy in the virtual envorinment. To install SQLAlchemy, just do pip3/pip install Flask-SQLAlchemy and it will be installed in your vritual environment
• To copy folder's content to another folder, here is the terminal command For Mac cp <from-foldername>/* <To-Foldername>. For example cp ../flask-with-sqldb/code/* code/