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Documenting REST API with Flask-Restx



This tutorial aims to use the Flask-restx library to implement and to document the REST API. Other similar libraries in the Flask framework include the flask_resful and  Flask-restplus libraries. 





The generated document is shown below.  All the operations are group into a default namespace. All the CRUD operations get, create, and update (except for the the delete operation) are displayed  below. 













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