Cookiecutter Flask OpenAPI boilerplate

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A full-featured Flask + API + OAS3 + JWT + SwaggerUI + ORM + Migrations + Great and Scalable structure project template

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It’s using latest Flask 1.2

Flask 2 is coming soon
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It uses PostgreSQL everywhere, so Docker is necessary (SQLite with no Docker dependency is on the roadmap)
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Why using this boilerplate
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  • Focus on the business and creating value
  • Faster project setup
  • Standard project structure organization (easy to scale)
  • Better QA

What’s Included (Features)
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  • API Design first using OpenAPI & Connexion
  • API documentation using swagger UI
  • Login using JWT
  • Every layer is separated in context/domain
  • Service layer for better tests and reuse
  • Using Flask Factory to integrate with extensions
  • Migrations using Alembic
  • ORM using SQLAlchemy
  • Optimized development and production settings
  • Comes with user model ready to go, signup & signin
  • Procfile for deploying to Heroku
  • Customizable PostgreSQL version
  • Tests using pytest
  • Unit tests for the API layer
  • Unit tests for the service layer

Development

  • Code linter
  • Code formatter (Black+iSort)
  • Using .env file
  • Docker support using docker-compose for development
  • Docker using multistage (Production Ready Dockerfile)
  • Postgres in development (using docker-compose)
  • CI using Github Actions

Structure

This project is organized in:

  • Layers
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    , which might not change in the project life cycle
  • Modules
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    , for domain contexts, which might scale in terms of new features
  • Configuration
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    separated based on the extensions
  • The
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    Business modules

Hackernews-Clone
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├── hackernews
│   ├── app.py                    ? Entrypoint (create_app)
│   ├── exceptions.py
│   ├── ? ext                    ? Settings
│   │   ├── ⚙️ configuration.py
│   │   ├── ⚙️ api.py
│   │   └── ⚙️ database.py
│   │   ...
│   ├── ? api                    ? API Routes
│   │   ├── ? auth.py
│   │   ├── ? news.py
│   │   └── ? openapi.yaml       ? API Contract
│   │   ...
│   ├── ? services               ? Business rules
│   │   ├── ? auth.py ?
│   │   ├── ? news.py ?
│   │   └── ? token.py ?
│   │   ...
│   └── ? models                 ? ORM
│       ├── ? news.py
│       └── ? users.py
│       ...
├── ⚙️ migrations                 ? Database versions
│   ├── alembic.ini
│   ├── env.py
│   ├── script.py.mako
│   └── versions
├── tests
│   ├── conftest.py
│   ├── api                      ? Endpoint tests, input, output and validation 
│   ├── database                 ? Database connection tests
│   └── services                 ? Business rules tests
├── requirements.txt
├── pytest.ini
├── uwsgi.ini                    ? Application server settings  
└── wsgi.py                      ? WSGI Deploy file (Gunicorn/uWSGI)

Requirements

  • Python 3.8 or 3.9 (Help us test in other versions)

  • Docker to run Postgres locally

Contribute
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Any help is more than welcome…

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    It could be an Issue
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    It could be using it and give a feedback
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    It could be a github star
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    It could be a Question
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    If you dislike this project, feel free to tell us what is wrong with it

Get Started (Usage)

Let’s pretend you want to create a Flask project called “hackernewsclone”. Rather than start from scratch by a app.py and add each library, Flask extesion and various other configurations that always get forgotten until the worst possible moment, get this cookiecutter template do all the work.

First, get Cookiecutter. Trust me, it’s awesome::

=1.7.0″”>

    $ pip install "cookiecutter>=1.7.0"

Now run it against this repo::

    $ cookiecutter https://github.com/huogerac/cookiecutter-flask-openapi/

You’ll be prompted for some values. Provide them…

project_name [Hackernews Clone]: 
project_slug [hackernews_clone]: hackernewsclone
main_model [News]: 
main_model_lower [news]: 
description [The Ultimate Flask Template]: 
author_name [Roger Camargo]: 
email [[email protected]]: 
version [0.1.0]: 
Select python_version:
1 - 3.8.10
2 - 3.9.5
Choose from 1, 2 [1]: 
Select postgresql_version:
1 - 13.3-alpine
2 - 13.5
3 - 14.1
Choose from 1, 2, 3 [1]: 
use_dockerfile [yes]: 
use_github_actions_CI [yes]: 
deploy_to_heroku [yes]: no
keep_vscode_settings [yes]: 
 [INFO]:   - Removing Procfile (Heroku deploy)

 [SUCCESS]: ? Huruuuu, All done! ✨ ? ✨

What's next?
  1) ? Running using docker
     cd hackernewsclone
     docker-compose up --build

  2) ? Running using virtualenv
     cd hackernewsclone
     make virtualenv
     source .venv/bin/activate
     make all

  Then
     access ? http://localhost:5000/api

 [INFO]: ⚠️ You must have Docker installed, at least to run the postgres database

Articles

Thanks and Inspirations

  • This template is based on cookiecutter-django. Thanks PyDanny and the Cookiecutter maintainers

  • This Flask structure is based on . Thanks Bruno Rocha and all yours awesome Flask contents

GitHub

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