How to build an API using Flask

• Newman

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  Newman is a command-line collection runner for Postman

  

Now that we have implemented our API endpoints, we can test them using a tool like Postman (https://www.postman.com/) or curl (https://curl.se/). We can use these tools to send different HTTP requests to our API and inspect the responses.

• sqlitebrowser

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  Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project. Previously known as "SQLite Database Browser" and "Database Browser for SQLite". Website at:

  

We can verify that our database and its tables have been created by looking at the app.db file in our project directory. We can also use a tool like DB Browser for SQLite (https://sqlitebrowser.org/) to inspect and manipulate our database.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• flask-sqlalchemy

  11 4,152 7.9 Python

  Adds SQLAlchemy support to Flask

  

Flask-SQLAlchemy: An extension that integrates SQLAlchemy with Flask. You can install it using pip install flask-sqlalchemy.

• libcurl

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  A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

  

Now that we have implemented our API endpoints, we can test them using a tool like Postman (https://www.postman.com/) or curl (https://curl.se/). We can use these tools to send different HTTP requests to our API and inspect the responses.

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