Create an API

Let us explore the Flask microframework and build a simple yet powerful RESTful API with minimal code

01 Install Flask Create a new directory inside of which your project will live. Open a Terminal window and navigate to be inside your new directory. Create a new virtual environment for this project, placed inside a new directory called ‘venv’, and activate it. Once inside the new virtual shell, proceed to installing Flask using the ‘pip install Flask’ command. 02 Create Index Create a new file in the root of the project location called ‘index.py’. The sample API will use a SQLite database, so we need to import that module for use in the application. We’ll also import some core components from the Flask module to handle request management and response formatting as well as some other functions. The minimum import for a Flask application is Flask itself. 03…

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