Further reading

We have mentioned the word "RESTful" a lot in this chapter, without any deep discussion of what it means exactly. If you want all of the details, a great introductory tutorial can be found on SitePoint.com:

• REST on SitePoint.com: https://www.sitepoint.com/developers-rest-api

Our RESTful API example barely even touches the basics of Flask and Flask-RESTful but provides a working example that you can build upon. I encourage you to read at a minimum the Flask Quick Start Guide, followed by the Flask RESTful Quick Start Guide to get a good grounding and understanding of these two frameworks:

• Flask Quick Start: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/quickstart
• Flask-RESTful Quick Start: https://flask-restful.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html

As mentioned during the chapter in the section titled Introducing the Flask microservices framework, if you experience difficulties with Flask-RESTful and cannot find answers in its...