API implementation in the Python Flask Web Application Framework

Flask is a lightweight web application framework based on Python. The Flask framework only supply the core components of a web applications and leaves the remaining design and architecture level decisions to the developer.

This is my study note on how to extend how to extend a web application with an application programming interface (or API) . REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is one of the standard architectural design for web services and web APIs.

he following example is based on Flask Mega Tutorial . There is a section dedicated for implementing API for a web application. 

The quick start section of the flask_resful library provides explanation for the following modules. 

• Resource
• reqparse - provide simple and uniform access to any variable on the flask.request object in Flask
• fields
• marshal

- Flask

    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flask_(web_framework)

- BluePrint 

    - http://exploreflask.com/en/latest/blueprints.html

- Namespace

    - asd

- the flask_resful library, Flask-restplus, and Flask-RestX

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- https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-xxiii-application-programming-interfaces-apis
- https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-xxiii-application-programming-interfaces-apis

- https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/writing-a-javascript-rest-client
- https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/designing-a-restful-api-with-python-and-flask
- https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/writing-a-javascript-rest-client
- https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/designing-a-restful-api-with-python-and-flask


Flask Mega Tutorial