flask_and_restless

creates basic app based on the tutorial at http://thelaziestprogrammer.com/sharrington/web-development/sqlalchemy-defined-rest-api

quick setup to test the app locally (on your dev machine)

from project root:

• create and activate a virtual environment with virtualenv or equivalent:

  virtualenv venv; source venv/bin/activate

• install required dependencies into your virtual env

• Bundle 3rd-party libraries into a folder (usually named 'lib') so that the GAE script appengine_config.py can find the dependencies. We have a script to somewhat automate this part:

  source gae_install_libs.sh

• install the GCP SDK (gcloud tool) if you don't have it set up already so you can connect to the Google Cloud SQL where the project/database is hosted

• Ensure you're in the right GCP project:

    `gcloud config list`
  
    ... or switch to the right one with:
    
    `gcloud config set project flask-and-restless`
  

• run the local server and launch the app as:

  dev_appserver app-dev.yaml

• You should now be able to access the endpoints such as: http://localhost:8080/api/author/1/books