hubpy API meet up series: Build your own APIs
https://www.meetup.com/hub-py/events/243706336/
During this meet up we discussed the Python WSGI standard and then reviewed/demo'ed a few frameworks for developing APIs in Python.
Commands
Run the API demo with Flask:
FLASK_APP=flask_demo.py flask run -p 8000
Run the API demo with Falcon:
gunicorn falcon_demo:api -w 3
Run the API demo using hug:
hug -f hug_demo.py
Deploy and run the API demo with Chalice (AWS account info must be set up):
cd chalice-demo
chalice deploy
Interact with the APIs while running one of the demos:
GET /hello
http GET localhost:8000/hello
POST /stats
http POST localhost:8000/stats data:=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] value:=10
For Chalice, replace localhost:8000 with the value printed at the end of the
chalice deploy command output.
Related Links
PEP 333 -- Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/#preface
gunicorn (Green Unicorn) Python WSGI HTTP Server http://gunicorn.org
Frameworks reviewed and demo'ed
Flask http://flask.pocoo.org
Falcon https://falconframework.org
Chalice https://github.com/aws/chalice
Django REST Framework http://www.django-rest-framework.org
Libraries used within demo apps
boltons: statsutils
https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/statsutils.html
Tools used to demonstrate functionality
HTTPie https://httpie.org