Haider - Web API Development with Python: A Beginners Guide using Flask and FastAPI

Web API Development with Python

A Beginners Guide using Flask and FastAPI

(First Edition)

By

Rehan Haider

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Preface

This book is intended for beginners with basic programming knowledge, who are trying to understand advanced concepts and give them a hands-on experience of interacting with, and building an API using Python.

My method of learning is by doing and doing something over and over again till it becomes a habit. Thus, this book will follow that philosophy, talk about concepts that you need to know, but will be focused on providing hands-on examples that you follow along but not act as a complete reference.

The contents of this book are divided into three parts

1. Introductory Concepts : That explains terms and definitions that you will encounter
2. Interacting with an API : Explains how to use and interact with APIs. Its easier to build things that you one knows how to operate
3. Building APIs : Main focus of the book, building APIs using Pythons Flask & FastAPI libraries

The topics and presentation will get progressively more difficult as you go deeper into the book and that is by design to get the readers to a stage where they are able self-learn any framework or library without requiring any help.

Student Support

If you face any challenges or need help, you can email

You can also create an issue on the of that particular exercise. In fact, this is a good practice.

Additional Resources

Modern developers have only two loyal friends:

1. Google
2. Stack Overflow

Chances are your program will throw errors and you need to debug it. The best way to do that is start by Googling your error message and look through the links that Google suggests on Stack Overflow. Arguably over half of issues can be resolved this way. The rest requires looking through documentation, reading blog / tutorial posts, and talking to other developers.