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Session 6 RESTful backend

• Flask
  • routes
  • endpoints
  • dev mode server
• decorators

Screencast

Material

• Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/
• Decorators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsAPt_9Bf3U
  • as class: https://youtu.be/FsAPt_9Bf3U?t=811
• decorators examples: logging, timer, wraps from functools: https://youtu.be/FsAPt_9Bf3U?t=1074
• Validate JSON: https://pypi.org/project/jsonschema/

Project

• cache expensive function result with decorator
• create todolist backend
  • apply frontend backbone (or any other frontend framework)
  • advanced: add validation of user data
  • advanced: add persistent storage (file, sql, etc)