Just another RESTful API for me to study :)
Soon more information on how to run that (I still don't know how to do that, but soon)
We will use PostgreSQL, so be sure to have installed, and running on 5432.
Install Autoenv globally. It helps us to set commands that will run every time we cd into our directory.
pip install autoenv
flask run
Base article: https://scotch.io/tutorials/build-a-restful-api-with-flask-the-tdd-way#toc-create-the-app
Keeping your requirements.txt updated: https://wakatime.com/blog/22-keeping-your-pip-requirements-fresh
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What does FlaskAPI does?
Implementation of the same web browseable APIs that Django REST provide. -
What does SQLAlchemy does?
It is a ORM (Object Relational Mapper). An ORM converts the raw SQL data (called querysets) into data we can understand called objects in a process called serialization and vice versa (deserialization). Translate querysets (raw SQL data) into objects, process: serialization.