Develop RESTful web services using the Flask micro-framework and integrate them using MySQL.
Use Flask to develop deploy and manage REST APIs with easy-to-read and understand Python
code. Solve your problem from a choice of libraries. Learn to use MySQL as the web services
database for your Flask API using SQLAlchemy ORM. Building REST APIs with Flask provides a
primer on Flask RESTful services and working with pip to set up your virtual environment. The
key differences between NoSQL and SQL are covered and you are taught how to connect MySQL and
Flask using SQLAlchemy. Author Kunal Relan presents best practices for creating REST APIs and
guides you in structuring your app and testing REST endpoints. He teaches you how to set up
authentication and render HTML using views. You learn how to write unit tests for your REST
APIs and understand mocks assertions and integration testing. You will know how to document
your REST APIs deploy your Flask application on all of the major cloud platforms and debug
and monitor your Flask application. What You'll Learn Use MySQL to create Flask REST APIs Test
REST endpoints Create CRUD endpoints with Flask and MySQL Deploy Flask on all of the major
cloud platforms Monitor your Flask application Who This Book Is For Python developers
interested in REST API development using Flask and web developers with basic programming
knowledge who want to learn how Python and REST APIs work together. Readers should be familiar
with Python (command line or at least pip) and MySQL.
