In this chapter, we will expand the capabilities of the RESTful API that we started in the previous chapter. We will use SQLAlchemy as our ORM to work with a PostgreSQL database, and we will take advantage of advanced features included in Flask and Flask-RESTful that will allow us to easily organize code for complex APIs, such as models and blueprints.
We will go through the following topics in this chapter:
- Design a RESTful API to interact with a PostgreSQL 10.5 database
- Understand the tasks performed by each HTTP method
- Install packages with the requirements.txt file to simplify our common tasks
- Create the database
- Configure the database
- Write code for the models with their ...
