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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!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396152
Length 160 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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.

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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