A Minimal API (Flask and Flask-RESTful)

https://flask-restful.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html

Setup your virtual environment

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements

Minimal

python api.py

• Resources are built on top of Flask pluggable views, giving you easy access to multiple HTTP methods just by defining methods on your resource.
• notice that you can pass multiple URLs when adding a resource.

Todo API

python todo.py

• Flask-RESTful understands multiple kinds of return values from view methods. Similar to Flask, you can return any iterable and it will be converted into a response, including raw Flask response objects.
• Notice how you can set the response code and response headers using multiple return values.
• reqparse gives Flask-RESTful built-in support for request data validation using a library similar to argparse.