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Building Web Applications with Flask

You're reading from Building Web Applications with Flask Use Python and Flask to build amazing web applications, just the way you want them!

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784396152

Length 160 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Flask

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book

2. First App, How Hard Could it Be? FREE CHAPTER

3. Man, Do I Like Templates!

4. Please Fill in This Form, Madam

5. Where Do You Store Your Stuff?

6. But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!

7. If Ain't Tested, It Ain't Game, Bro!

8. Tips and Tricks or Flask Wizardry 101

9. Extensions, How I Love Thee

10. What Now?

Index

Chapter 6. But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!

REST is an architectural style that has been gaining momentum these last few years due to its many features and architectural constraints such as cacheability, stateless behavior, and its interface requirement.

Tip

For a nice overview of REST architecture, refer to http://www.drdobbs.com/Web-development/restful-Web-services-a-tutorial/240169069 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer.

Our focus in this chapter will be on RESTful Web Services and APIs—that is, Web services and Web APIs following the REST architecture. Let's start at the beginning: what is a Web service?

A Web service is a Web application that can be consulted by your application as if it was an API, improving the user experience. If your RESTful Web service does not need to be called from a traditional UI interface, and may be used standalone, then what you have is a RESTful Web Service API, "RESTful API" for short, that works just...

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