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Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789532227

Length 500 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Combine

Concepts

REST API

Author (1):

Gaston C. Hillar

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Developing RESTful APIs and Microservices with Flask 1.0.2 FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Models, SQLAlchemy, and Hyperlinked APIs in Flask

3. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Flask

4. Testing and Deploying an API in a Microservice with Flask

5. Developing RESTful APIs with Django 2.1

6. Working with Class-Based Views and Hyperlinked APIs in Django 2.1

7. Improving Our API and Adding Authentication to it with Django

8. Throttling, Filtering, Testing, and Deploying an API with Django 2.1

9. Developing RESTful APIs with Pyramid 1.10

10. Developing RESTful APIs with Tornado 5.1.1

11. Working with Asynchronous Code, Testing, and Deploying an API with Tornado

12. Assessment

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Installing packages with the requirements.txt file to simplify our common tasks

Make sure you quit Flask's development server. You just need to press Ctrl + C in the Terminal or Command Prompt window in which it is running.

Now, we will install a number of additional packages. Make sure you have activated the virtual environment we created in the previous chapter and named Flask01. After you activate the virtual environment, it is time to run numerous commands, which will be the same for either macOS, Linux, or Windows.

Now, we will edit the existing requirements.txt file to specify the additional set of packages that our application requires to be installed in any supported platform. This way, it will be extremely easy to repeat the installation of the specified packages with their versions in any new virtual environment.

Use your favorite editor to edit the existing text file named requirements.txt within the root folder for the virtual environment. Add the following lines after the last...