Flask_api

Just another example to make a API REST with Flask

Virtual machine

To up the virtual machine go to the project folder and type

$ vagrant up

Watch out, the virtual machine get your port 5000.

Virtual environment

If you don't have Vagrant you can make a virtual environment with python 3 and execute in local.

$ pip install virtualenv

Go to a folder where you hold your virtual environments

$ virtualenv virtualenvFlask -p /usr/bin/python3

Activate virtual environment

$ source virtualenvFlask/bin/activate

Go to project folder and install the requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Database

You also need to create the database, if you want to change the name of the database you need to change config.py the SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI var

SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'sqlite:///' + os.path.join(basedir, 'weather.sqlite')

and create the database in our basedir

$ touch weather.sqlite

Make the migrations to create the models in the database

python3 manage.py migrate

Run

If you run the project inside de virtual machine remember to add -h 0.0.0.0 for you can access from outside. By default the port will be 5000, it can be changed adding -p 8080

$ python3 manage.py runserver -h 0.0.0.0