Introduction
- Why you should take this course!
- 4 things you should know before starting this course
- Introduction to this section
- Access the e-book for Section 1 here!
- Our project and endpoints
- Reviewing the beginner course code
- Simplifying our error handling
- Refactoring our resources
- Should we have unique names?
- Adding basic type hinting
- Adding custom JSON types
- Using the current class as a type hint
- Using Black for code formatting
- Improving errors with constants
- @classmethod across the board
- Testing our API with Postman
- Conclusion of this section
Serialization with Marshmallow
- Introduction to this section
- Serialization with Marshmallow
- Deserialization with Marshmallow
- Migrating from virtualenv to Pipenv
- Postman collection for this section
- Using vanilla Marshmallow with the API
- A change to marshmallow-sqlalchemy
- Introduction to Flask-Marshmallow
- Adding items to our REST API
- Adding stores to our REST API
- Deduplicating error handling
- Conclusion of this section
E-mail confirmations
- Introduction to this section
- Introduction to e-mail confirmation
- Postman collection for this section
- Adding an activated property
- Activating users manually
- Telling users they are active
- Setting up Mailgun
- Sending e-mails with Mailgun (Part 1)
- Sending e-mails with Mailgun (Part 2)
- Creating our Mailgun library file
- Using .env files in Flask
- Adding more configuration to .env
- Error handling in Mailgun
- Conclusion of this section
Advanced e-mail confirmation
- Introduction to this section
- Postman collection for this section
- Creating the ConfirmationModel
- Changes in our UserModel
- Creating our ConfirmationResource
- Updating our UserResource
- Errata and code changes required
- Adding the last confirmation to the user schema
- Fixing our app.py
- Cross-resource dependencies are (generally) bad
- What are localisation and internationalisation?
- Storing strings in config files
- Creating a simple translation library
- Updating our resources to use translations
- Adding a new language to our API
- What is Flask-Babel?
- Common pitfalls and advice
- Conclusion of this section
Postman documentation and tests
- Introduction to this section
- Postman collection for this section
- Collection and request descriptions
- Recap of Postman environments
- JavaScript tests in Postman
- Running entire collections in Postman
- Adding example requests and responses
- Previewing our Postman documentation
- Publishing our documentation page
- More options for publishing documentation
- Conclusion of this section
Image uploads
- Introduction to this section
- Postman collection for this section
- Installing Flask-Uploads
- Config files in Flask
- What are wsgi and Werkzeug?
- Creating our image helper library
- Creating our image schema
- Creating our image upload resource
- Trying out our image upload
- Retrieving and deleting images
- Another example: user avatars
- Adding the avatar resource
- Conclusion of this section
Database migrations
- Introduction to this section
- Getting a PostgreSQL database
- What's in our starter code?
- Postman collection for this section
- Connecting to our remote database
- Initialising Flask-Migrate and Alembic
- Creating our initial table structure
- Our first database migration
