Introduction

In the previous chapter, we completed the account opening workflow by activating the user accounts via email. In this chapter, we will develop a function so that we can upload pictures. These pictures are the user's profile picture and the recipe cover images. Aside from uploading images, we will also discuss image compression. Pillow is an image processing package that we are going to use to compress images up to 90%. This can greatly enhance the performance of our API without compromising on the image's quality.

Technically speaking, we will introduce two Python packages, Flask-Uploads and Pillow, in this chapter. Flask-Uploads allows us to quickly develop image uploading functions. For image compression, we will be using Pillow. It can generate images in our specified format and compress them accordingly.