Python REST API Tutorial for Beginners | How to Build a Flask REST API

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In this Python REST API Tutorial for Beginners you will learn how to build a Flask REST API. A key skill for backend web development is learning how to build a REST API. I'll use Python with Flask to show you how.

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Python REST API Tutorial for Beginners | How to Build a Flask REST API:

(00:00) Intro
(00:12) Welcome
(00:38) Tutorial Prerequisites
(00:53) What is REST? What is an API?
(03:07) REST API Diagram
(04:27) Virtual Environment set up
(07:19) Install Dependencies
(09:56) A Simple REST API
(12:38) Modeling Data & Creating the Database
(17:19) Flask Restful
(18:26) Define args with RequestParser
(19:51) /api/users Resource Endpoint
(21:54) Marshalling / Serializable JSON Data
(24:00) POST Data
(30:17) /api/users/id Resource Endpoint
(33:22) Update & Delete Data

📺 Video References:
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📚 Tutorial References:
🔗 MDN REST: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...
🔗 MDN API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...
🔗 Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
🔗 Python: https://www.python.org/
🔗 git & git bash: https://www.git-scm.com/downloads
🔗 Flask: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/...
🔗 Flask Restful: https://flask-restful.readthedocs.io/...
🔗 Flask SQLAlchemy: https://flask-sqlalchemy.palletsproje...

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