A skeleton for building Python applications on Google App Engine with the Flask micro framework.
$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/
> Hello World!
$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/todo
> {
"tasks": [
{
"description": "Milk, Cheese, Pizza, Fruit, Tylenol",
"done": false,
"id": 1,
"title": "Buy groceries"
},
{
"description": "Need to find a good Python tutorial on the web",
"done": false,
"id": 2,
"title": "Learn Python"
}
]
}
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Install the App Engine Python SDK. See the README file for directions. You'll need python 2.7 and pip 1.4 or later installed too.
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Clone this repo with
git clone git@github.com:alyssaq/flask-restful-api-appengine.git
- Install dependencies in the project's lib directory. Note: App Engine can only import libraries from inside your project directory.
pip install -r requirements.txt -t lib
- Run this project locally using Google App Launcher or from the command line (symlinks can be created from the launcher):
dev_appserver.py . --skip_sdk_update_check=yes
Visit the application at: http://localhost:8080
See the development server documentation for options when running dev_appserver.
To deploy the application:
- Use the Admin Console to create a project/app id. (App id and project id are identical)
- Deploy the application:
appcfg.py -A <your-project-id> --oauth2 update .
- Congratulations! Your application is now live at your-app-id.appspot.com
This skeleton includes TODO markers to help you find basic areas you will want to customize.
To add persistence to your models, use NDB for scale. Consider CloudSQL if you need a relational database.
See the Third party libraries page for libraries that are already included in the SDK. To include SDK libraries, add them in your app.yaml file. Other than libraries included in the SDK, only pure python libraries may be added to an App Engine project.
Fork, make changes, submit pull request :D