Beautiful REST APIs with Flask, Swagger and Flask-RESTPlus
Slides for a presentation I gave the EuroPython 2016 conference in Bilbao.
2016
Building beautiful REST APIs using Flask, Swagger UI and Flask-RESTPlus
This article outlines steps needed to create a REST API using Flask and Flask-RESTPlus. These tools combine into a framework, which automates common tasks:
- API input validation
- formatting output (as JSON)
- generating interactive documentation (with Swagger UI)
- turning Python exceptions into machine-readable HTTP responses