This should be the first of a few blog posts explaining how to get a simple API up and running with Python, and using the Flask framework. I’ll try and link all these together once I get more up. And if you’d like the source code at any time, you can grab it here: github.com/billturner/simple_flask_api. The branch for this part will be 01-bare-bones.

When I initially thought about how I’d rebuild Lists of Bests, I had in mind to use some technologies that were somewhat new to me, so I’d have a chance to learn along the way. Well, since that post those new technologies aren’t all that new to me anymore. At my new(-ish) position at Arcadia, I’ve been writing quite a bit of React along with Ruby on Rails (and its API capabilities). So, there isn’t that much of a need to learn those tools from scratch.