API Starter

Introduction

This is a simple starter for HTTP JSON API.

Main Stack:

• Web Framework: Flask
• ORM: SQLAlchemy
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Others:
  • alembic for database migration
  • marshmallow for json serialization, deserialization and validation
  • py.test for testing

Getting started

• dotenv sample: see .env.sample
• new dotenv for multiple environments, e.g.: .env.development
• export environments: export PYTHONPATH=.
• run app: ./manage.py runserver

Testing

• run tests: ./run_tests.sh

Reference

• Welcome | Flask (A Python Microframework)
• SQLAlchemy - The Database Toolkit for Python
• marshmallow: simplified object serialization — marshmallow 3.0.0b8 documentation
• Welcome to Alembic’s documentation! — Alembic 0.9.10 documentation