Professional RESTful API Design using Python Flask

Discover how to build your own RESTful API application using Flask! This friendly course covers everything from the fundamentals to practical building steps.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about helping you build a RESTful API using Flask! It's designed for those who know a bit about Flask already and wanna take their skills further in a friendly and accessible way.

Key Points

  • Learn the fundamentals of RESTful API design
  • Step-by-step guidance on building a Pet Store API
  • Includes authentication and search functionalities

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the basic concepts behind RESTful APIs
  • Build a fully functional API platform
  • Implement authentication features and endpoints

About This Course

Learn the fundamental concepts and build a RESTful API application from scratch

This course will teach you how to build a professional API platform using pure Flask, without any supplemental libraries, so that students can learn the fundamentals of RESTful API design.

In today’s world, dominated by gorgeous JavaScript user interfaces and mobile applications, the ability to build a scalable and well architected API is key to be able to supplement those applications and ensure that clients and servers communicate with the proper interfaces.

The course covers the basic concepts of the RESTful API pattern and then goes into detail and step by step building an API platform that will cover the six constraints of the architecture. Students will learn the industry-standard and will follow best practices for API architectures.

At the end of the course students will be able to design, architect and build their own RESTful API platforms, and with the deep understanding of the laws governing APIs, can go ahead and try out the API libraries available for Python and Flask, knowing the fundamentals and the advantages of using them.

If you already know the basics of Flask and you are interested in how to design, architect and build an API platform, this is the course for you.

The course is divided in 2 sections:

  • Introduction which covers all the concepts necessary to understand what is a RESTful API and its six constraints

  • A step by step explanation building a Pet Store API that will include an authentication layer, a Store endpoint and a Pet endpoint as well as search functionalities

The course has more than 5 hours of video tutorials as well as the source code at the end of each section, so that you can follow along with the coding process.

The course can take anywhere from 3 to 10 days to complete based on how much material the student completes daily.

Additionally we’re constantly updating the course, adding contents thanks to the feedback of our students.

Join this course and continue your path to becoming a professional backend web developer!

  • You will learn the fundamental concepts for the design of RESTful API platforms

  • You will be introduced to the RESTful API constraints

  • You will learn how to setup an authentication API layer

Instructor

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Jorge Escobar

From Zero is an educational project created by Jorge Escobar, a technologist, entrepreneur and open source fanatic with more than 15 years of experience in the development of web applications in New York City. Jorge has worked in well established companies like Yahoo!, Univision and MongoDB and has also been the technical founding member of various successful tech startups that...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Javier Godino Moral- UNCOVER LAB SL. B01974021 C/ Gurtubay, 6 - 28001 Madrid
Javier G. M. U. L. S. B. C. G. 6. -. 2. M.
3.0
9 months ago

muy atrasado, no lo ha actualizado

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ui-avatar of Tamara Salcedo Peinado. Uncover Lab SL. B01974021 C/Gurtubay, 6 - 28924 Madrid
Tamara S. P. U. L. S. B. C. 6. -. 2. M.
3.5
11 months ago

I think that are some things that that needed a more explanation, I would also enjoy some practice during the course.

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Alexandre V.
5.0
3 years ago

The instructor knows what he is talking about and masters many complex technologies: Docker, Python, Flask, ...

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ui-avatar of Ahmed Mukashaty
Ahmed M.
4.0
4 years ago

It is a professional course, elaborating on design standards too.

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Alain P.
5.0
5 years ago

Excellent, great work

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Andy P.
3.0
5 years ago

Everything is pretty outdated...

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ui-avatar of Nitinkumar Patel
Nitinkumar P.
5.0
5 years ago

It's really good course to start RESTful API Design using core Flask. Thank you Sir!

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ui-avatar of Ted Swoyer
Ted S.
4.5
5 years ago

Good development of an API to illustrate basic concepts as well as some advanced concepts such as authorization, pagination and HATEOAS.

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Luis P.
3.5
5 years ago

This is not so much about the information presented thus far, but more of the uncertainty I now have whether or not I will even be able to run the code in my computer. The promo page prerequisites were NOT clear enough to convey to the potential user that there are several pieces of software that nee to be installed before being able to follow along and the compatible systems. So as I go along, I am not even sure if after watching for more than 1/2 hour, if I will be able to continue until after the software installation section. Please be more transparent regarding systems requirements, and not just simply stating a computer connected to the internet.

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Thomas O.
3.5
5 years ago

I took the original basic Flask course from this instructor, and it used the older, function-based views instead of pluggable views. I needed to do some external research to learn the new class-based views before I could really use this material. In general, however, the material was good.

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