Using Flask to build a Python HTTP REST API.

Integrations with Flask-SQLalchemy.

Clone this repository:

$ git clone [email protected]:francRang/Sample-REST-API.git

From the directory from which this repo was cloned, go into the root directory for Sample-REST-API:

$ cd Sample-REST-API

Install with pip:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a .env file in the root directory of the flask application to specify the different secrets and configurations needed needed:

$ touch .env

Inside .env file:

SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI='postgresql://user:password@localhost/somedb'
SQLALCHEMY_ECHO='False'
SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS='False'
FLASK_DEBUG = 'False'

.
|──────app/
| |────__init__.py
| |────routes.py
| |────models.py
| |────helpers.py
|──────.env
|──────.gitignore
|──────requirements.txt
|──────config.py
|──────run.py
|──────README.md

$ python3 run.py

The default port is 5000. Unless specified otherwise, this API will run locally:

http://127.0.0.1:5000/customers

or

http://localhost:5000/customers