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Show HN: Build a Python REST API in 5 Mins with Flask and Arrested (medium.com)
4 points by mikeywaites 3135 days ago
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We released Arrested (https://arrested.readthedocs.org) a few weeks. This is a follow up post covering the basics and marks the beginning of series of weekly posts covering lots of different topics relating to RESTFul API design in Python.

If you have any questions please ask!

IMHO, if you used the space you waste on the "clickbait" for an explanation of what a user might learn when they

Before we get stuck into creating a new endpoint I’d recommend you take a look through the code we generated above to familiarize yourself with some of the components of Arrested.

you'd have a better introduction article. I'm not going to install cookiecutter and run through the the commands just to get context necessary to understand your first introductory article. Is it really that complicated to set up that you need cookiecutter?

E.g. it takes until after that point that you get to "Btw, that set up a database as a datastore", which is a fairly important part of the equation.

Hi detaro.

Thanks for the reply. I can't disagree with your points. I should be clearer about my usage of the cookiecutter template right from the start over my poor attempts at being funny :D

I'll have a think about re-shuffling the content.

Thanks again