news-site-aws-api-gateway

AWS api gateway to serve data scrapped for react news website

Purpose

Purpose of this api is to serve data for daily-roundup.netlify.app website.

How it works

• Flask API is used to create a method that retrieves data from MySQL using mysql.connector library
• Zappa library is then used to deploy new builds from the command line
• Zappa settings file contains details needed to deploy this to AWS API Gateway
• This API supports HTTPS, Basic Auth & is CORS compliant

Architecture Diagram

Technologies & Libraries used 🚀

• React
• AWS RDS
• AWS EC2
• Flask API
• Zappa Library
• mysql.connector library