hubpy API meet up series: Build your own APIs

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.