This is an interactive tutorial that will teach you how to create an API using the Flask framework using Python and Pipenv.

This project comes with the necessary files to start working immediately.

We recommend opening this very same repository using a provisioning tool like Codespaces (recommended) or Gitpod. Alternatively, you can clone it on your local computer using the git clone command.

This is the repository you need to open:

https://github.com/breatheco-de/python-flask-api-tutorial

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In this tutorial, we are going to be building a REST API that exposes 3 endpoints to the internet:

GET /todos
POST /todos
DELETE /todos/<int:position>

Will return the list of all todos like this:

[
    {
        "done": true,
        "label": "Sample Todo 1"
    },
    {
        "done": true,
        "label": "Sample Todo 2"
    }
]

This will add a new todo to the list with the following request body:

{
    "done": true,
    "label": "Sample Todo 1"
}

And return the updated list of todos.

This will remove one todo, based on a given position in the todos list, at the end of the url and return the updated list of todos.

This and many other projects are built by students as part of the 4Geeks Academy Coding Bootcamp by Alejandro Sanchez and many other contributors. Find out more about our Full Stack Developer Course, and Data Science Bootcamp.