README.md

Building a REST API with Python 3

Demo code for the course "Building a REST API with Python 3" on Pluralsight.

There's a commit for each module in the course, as well as a tag:

• Module 2: Getting Started
• Module 3: Creating a datamodel
• Module 3 (end): Created database models, added .env
• Module 4 (end): Api endpoints and unit tests
• Module 5: Exercise: Reading Content from the Filesystem
• Module 5: Exercise: Parsing Frontmatter
• Module 5 (end): Fixed the final unit test

Setup instructions

1. Install poetry

Follow the instructions at https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation

2. Clone this repository

Check out any specific commit you like.

3. Install dependencies

Inside the project, run poetry install.

4. Run the project

The command for this is poetry run python runserver.py.

You can now view the project at http://localhost:8000

5. Test the project

For this you run poetry run pytest.