Python API Developments

Lessons

11+ Lessons | 103+ Exercises | 80+ Quizzes | 65+ Flashcards | 65+ Glossary of terms

TestPrep

45+ Pre Assessment Questions | 45+ Post Assessment Questions |

Hand on lab

11+ LiveLab | 00+ Minutes

Lessons 1: Preface

• About the Course

Lessons 2: Your First Step

• Introduction
• Understanding API
• RESTful API
• HTTP Protocol
• HTTP Methods and CRUD
• The JSON Format
• HTTP Status Codes
• Open API
• The Flask Web Framework
• Building a Simple Recipe Management Application
• Using curl or httpie to Test All the Endpoints
• Postman
• Summary

Lessons 3: Starting to Build Our Project

• Introduction
• What is Flask-RESTful?
• Virtual Environment
• Creating a Recipe Model
• Configuring Endpoints
• Making HTTP Requests to the Flask API Using curl and httpie
• Summary

Lessons 4: Manipulating a Database with SQLAlchemy

• Introduction
• Databases
• SQL
• ORM
• Defining Our Models
• Password Hashing
• Summary

Lessons 5: Authentication Services and Security with JWT

• Introduction
• JWT
• Flask-JWT-Extended
• Designing the Methods in the Recipe Model
• Refresh Tokens
• The User Logout Mechanism
• Summary

Lessons 6: Object Serialization with marshmallow

• Introduction
• Serialization versus Deserialization
• marshmallow
• A Simple Schema
• UserSchema Design
• RecipeSchema Design
• The PATCH Method
• Summary

Lessons 7: Email Confirmation

• Introduction
• Mailgun
• User Account Activation Workflow
• HTML Format Email
• Summary

Lessons 8: Working with Images

• Introduction
• Building the User Avatar Function
• Flask-Uploads
• Image Resizing and Compression
• Introduction to Pillow
• Summary

Lessons 9: Pagination, Searching, and Ordering

• Introduction
• Pagination
• Paginated APIs
• Recipe Searching
• Sorting and Ordering
• Summary

Lessons 10: Building More Features

• Introduction
• Caching
• Flask-Caching
• API Rate Limiting
• Flask-Limiter
• Summary

Lessons 11: Deployment

• Introduction
• Deployment
• Comparing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
• The Heroku Platform
• Configuration Handling in Smilecook
• Heroku Application
• Heroku Add-Ons
• Setting Up Environment Variables for the Heroku App
• Setting Up Variables in Postman
• Setting Up the Front-end Interface to Work with the Smilecook API
• Summary

Hands-on LAB Activities

Your First Step

• Building a Flask Application Using PyCharm
• Managing Recipes with Flask

Starting to Build Our Project

• Analyzing the Recipe Model and Testing its Endpoints

Manipulating a Database with SQLAlchemy

• Using Flask-Migrate to Build a Database Upgrade Script

Authentication Services and Security with JWT

• Analyzing a User Login Function
• Analyzing the Logout Function

Object Serialization with marshmallow

• Using marshmallow to Validate the User Data
• Analyzing RecipeSchema

Working with Images

• Adding the avatar_image Attribute to the User Model

Pagination, Searching, and Ordering

• Analyzing the Implementation of Pagination on the Published Recipes Retrieval Function

Deployment

• Analyzing How to Segregate Application Configura…ween the Development and Production Environments