Flask-RESTPlus Has What You Need
Explore how to create REST APIs using Flask-RESTPlus by connecting routes with HTTP methods, parsing JSON input and output, and managing errors. Understand the use of Resource and API classes, enabling easy integration of client and server through CORS support. Practice using command-line tools to test API endpoints, improve your ability to develop server-side features for full stack applications.
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Flask and HTTP methods
Flask is a micro-framework, and we can use it to create a REST API by connecting routes and specifying HTTP methods (for example, GET, POST), parsing input and output JSON strings, and handling errors. An easier approach is to use the batteries-included package flask-restplus.
Flask-RESTPlus
If you want to work on it on your local system, you can install it using pipenv in your project directory.
pipenv install flask-restplus flask-cors
Here, we’ve also installed flask-cors, which will make it easier later to develop the front-end and back-end at the same time.