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Product type Video

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788621526

Length 12hrs 13mins

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Flask

Concepts

REST API

Author (1):

Jose Salvatierra Fuentes

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

1. Welcome FREE CHAPTER

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2. A Full Python Refresher

Introduction to this section
Variables in Python
Solution to coding exercise: Variables
String formatting in Python
Getting user input
Writing our first Python app
Lists, tuples, and sets
Advanced set operations
Solution to coding exercise: Lists, tuples, sets
Booleans in Python
If statements
The 'in' keyword in Python
If statements with the 'in' keyword
Loops in Python
Solution to coding exercise: Flow control
List comprehensions in Python
Dictionaries
Destructuring variables
Functions in Python
Function arguments and parameters
Default parameter values
Functions Returning Values
Solution to Coding Exercise: Functions
Lambda Functions in Python
Dictionary Comprehensions
Solution to Coding Exercise: Dictionaries and Students
Unpacking Arguments
Unpacking Keyword Arguments
Object-Oriented Programming in Python
Magic Methods: ..str.. and ..repr..
Solution to Coding Exercise: Classes and Objects
@classmethod and @staticmethod
Solution to Coding Exercise: @classmethod and @staticmethod
Class Inheritance
Class Composition
Type Hinting in Python 3.5+
Imports in Python
Relative Imports in Python
Errors in Python
Custom Error Classes
First-Class Functions
Simple Decorators in Python
The "at" Syntax for Decorators
Decorating Functions with Parameters
Decorators with Parameters
Mutability in Python
Mutable Default Parameters (and Why They Are a Bad Idea)

3. Your first REST API

Overview of the project we'll build
Initial set-up for a Flask app
Your first REST API endpoint
What is JSON?
How to interact with and test your REST API
How to create stores in our REST API
How to create items in each store
How to get a specific store and its items

4. Introduction to Docker

What are Docker containers and images?
How to run a Flask app in a Docker container
How to run the Flask REST API with Docker Compose

5. Flask-Smorest for more efficient development

Data model improvements for our API
General improvements to our first REST API
New endpoints for our first REST API
How to run the API in Docker with automatic reloading and debug mode
How to use Blueprints and MethodViews in Flask
How to write marshmallow schemas for our API
How to perform data validation with marshmallow
Decorating responses with Flask-Smorest

6. Store data in a SQL database with SQLAlchemy

Overview and why use SQLAlchemy
How to code a simple SQLAlchemy model
How to write one-to-many relationships using SQLAlchemy
How to configure Flask-SQLAlchemy with your Flask app
How to insert data into a table using SQLAlchemy
How to find models in the database by ID or return a 404
How to update models with SQLAlchemy
How to retrieve list of all models
How to delete models with SQLAlchemy
Deleting related models with cascades
Conclusion of this section

7. Many-to-many relationships with SQLAlchemy

Changes in this section
One-to-many relationship between stores and tags
Many-to-many relationship between items and tags

8. User authentication with Flask-JWT-Extended

Who uses the JWT?
How to set up Flask-JWT-Extended with our app
Coding the User model and schema
How to add a register endpoint to the REST API
How to add a login endpoint to the REST API
Protect endpoints by requiring a JWT
JWT claims and authorization
How to add logout to the REST API
Request chaining with Insomnia
Token refreshing with Flask-JWT-Extended

9. Database migrations with Alembic and Flask-Migrate

How to add Flask-Migrate to our Flask app
Initialize your database with Flask-Migrate
Change SQLAlchemy models and generate a migration
Manually review and modify database migrations

10. Git Crash Course

What are Git repositories and commits?
Initialize a Git repository for our project
Writing Markdown for documents and commits
Remote repositories and how to use them
Git branches and merging
Merge conflicts and how to resolve them
Overview of the final e-book chapters

11. Deployments with Render.com

Creating a Render.com web service
How to run Flask with gunicorn in Docker
Get a deployed PostgreSQL database
Run the app and database locally with Docker Compose
Use PostgreSQL locally and in production
Test the finished production app

12. Task Queues with rq and sending emails

How to send emails with Python and Mailgun
How to send emails when users register
What is a task queue and setting up a Redis database
How to Populate and consume the task queue with rq
How to process background tasks with the rq worker
How to send HTML emails using Mailgun and Python
How to deploy a background worker to render.com

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