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Let's have fun building APIs with Starlette: The Asynchronous Python Web Framework

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Hemangi Karchalkar

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Outline

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  • Installation
  • Request
  • Response
  • Routing
  • Path Parameters
  • Http Methods
  • Jinja Templating
  • DB creation with SQLAlchemy
  • Creating table definition
  • Queries
  • API  Schema
  • Configuration
  • Testing APIs and wrapping up!

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Starlette

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Installation

  1. Setting up the virtual env
  2. Requirements: Python 3.8+ 
  3. Installing starlette and uvicorn(ASGI server)
  4. Code editor – VSCode, Atom, Pycharm etc
  5. Postman

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Requests

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Jinja2 templates

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Creating a database with SQLAlchemy

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Creating table definition

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API Schemas

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  • Starlette supports generating API schemas, such as the widely used OpenAPI specification. (Formerly known as "Swagger".)

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Configuration

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Testing the API endpoints and Wrapping up!