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Installing Postman and the Flask-RESTPlus APIs extension - Flask Tutorial
From the course: Full Stack Web Development with Flask
Installing Postman and the Flask-RESTPlus APIs extension
- [Instructor] Creating and Testing REST APIs Using Postman. Section 6. In this section we're going to create REST APIs, also be installing Flask-RESTPlus extension, along with a program called Postman for testing our APIs. And, we'll be creating and testing REST API CRUD operations using some HTTP verbs, such as the Post, Get, Put and Delete. These are very common HT verbs and there are actually a few more, but we'll do these four. Which are apart of the CRUD operations. So, before we start, we need to install Postman and this extension called Flask-RESTPlus. So, Flask-RESTPlus is an extension that adds some very nice support for creating REST APIs and it makes our efforts so easy. So you'll see that in minute. It is an extension that works with Python 2.7 or higher and also works with PyPy and PyPy3 as well. It's very easy to setup and has very, very minimal setup features, provides a very good collection of decorators…
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