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API Server Flask
Open-source API Server crafted in Flask using JWT Authentication and SQLite.
Simple Flask API Boilerplate enhanced with JWT authentication, SqlAlchemy, SQLite persistence and deployment scripts via Docker. It has all the ready-to-use bare minimum essentials.
- Full-stack samples compatible with this product:
- USERS API:
/api/users/register: create a new user/api/users/login: authenticate an existing user/api/users/logout: delete the associated JWT token/api/users/checkSession: check an existing JWT Token for validity/api/users/edit- edit the information associated with a registered user
Flask API Server - Open-source Product.
✨ Requirements
- Python3 (Python2 is not supported)
- Flask==2.1.2
- flask-restx==0.5.1
- Flask-JWT-Extended==4.4.1
- pytest
✨ Getting Started
👉 Step 1 - clone the project using GIT
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$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/api-server-flask.git
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$ cd api-server-flask
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👉 Step 2 - Install dependencies (using a virtual environment)
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$ python3 -m venv /path/to/your/virtual/environment
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$ source <path/to/venv>/bin/activate
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Install dependencies in once the
virtualenv is activated1
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
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👉 Step 3 - Prepare the environment
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$ export FLASK_APP=run.py
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$ export FLASK_ENV=development
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Or for Windows-based systems
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$ (Windows CMD) set FLASK_APP=run.py
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$ (Windows CMD) set FLASK_ENV=development
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$
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$ (Powershell) $env:FLASK_APP = ".\run.py"
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$ (Powershell) $env:FLASK_ENV = "development"
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👉 Step 4 - Initialize the database, checkrun.pyfor shell context
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$ flask shell
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>>> from api import db
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>>> db.create_all()
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👉 Step 5 - Start the API server
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$ python run.py
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// OR
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$ flask run
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Visit
http://localhost:5000 in your browser. The API server will be running.✨ Project Structure
The codebase has a simple, intuitive structure where
run.py is responsible to bundle and start the API Server using the setup coded by the api folder:1
api-server-flask/
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├── api
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│ ├── config.py
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│ ├── __init__.py
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│ ├── models.py
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│ └── routes.py
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├── Dockerfile
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├── README.md
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├── requirements.txt
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├── run.py
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└── tests.py
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✨ Compatible Fullstack Products
The product can be used as a standalone server but also as an authentication server for React, Vue products. Such a product already configured with Django API Server is React Datta Able, an open-source React Dashboard.
React Datta Able - Open-Source Dashboard.
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