Book Library REST API

Code was implemented thanks to the Udemy course - REST API development step by step - Python | Flask | MySQL . REST API for online library. It supports authors of books and books resources including authentication (JWT Token).

The documentation can be found in documentation.html or here

Setup

• Clone repository
• Create database and user
• Rename .env.example to .env and set your values

# SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI MySQL template
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI=mysql+pymysql://<db_user>:<db_password>@<db_host>/<db_name>?charset=utf8mb4

• Create a virtual environment

python -m venv venv

• Install packages from requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Migrate database

flask db upgrade

• Run command

flask run

NOTE

Import / delete example data from book_library_app/samples:

# import
flask db-manage add-data

# remove
flask db-manage remove-data

Tests

In order to execute tests located in tests/ run the command:

python -m pytest tests/

Technologies / Tools

• Python 3.8.0
• Flask 1.1.2
• Alembic 1.4.2
• SQLAlchemy 1.3.16
• Pytest 5.4.3
• MySQL
• AWS
• Postman