Building a barebone Web API service in Python without a web framework

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  • peer_to_peer

    Barebone web api in python without any framework

    • You then can play with the "APIs". A comprehensive work-through of how to send requests and all are available in the project's README on github.

  • Django

    The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

    • Have you ever wondered how Python web frameworks work under the hood? Are you interested in just playing with python and not the complexities of its web frameworks such as Django, Flask, FastAPI, and so on? Do you know that with just Python, you can have some functionalities built? Do you want to explore the popular Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn'? If these sound interesting to you, welcome onboard! We will be exploiting the capabilities of gunicorn to serve our "sketchy", barebone, and "not-recommended-for-production" web API service with the following features:

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Poetry

    Python packaging and dependency management made easy

    • As with every project, we need to create it. Open up your terminal/cmd/PowerShell and navigate to the directory where the project will be housed. Then create the project. For me, I used poetry to bootstrap a typical python project like so:

  • fastapi

    FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

    • Have you ever wondered how Python web frameworks work under the hood? Are you interested in just playing with python and not the complexities of its web frameworks such as Django, Flask, FastAPI, and so on? Do you know that with just Python, you can have some functionalities built? Do you want to explore the popular Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn'? If these sound interesting to you, welcome onboard! We will be exploiting the capabilities of gunicorn to serve our "sketchy", barebone, and "not-recommended-for-production" web API service with the following features:

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