Step 1: Setting up Flaskerize¶
We’re going to start from nothing, and over the course of this quickstart we’ll end up with a simple API.
First, let’s create a folder for our Flask API to live in.
mkdir flaskerize-example
cd flaskertize-example
Now, let’s set up a virtual environment for our API project, activate it,
and then upgrade pip
within that environment.
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
Note
The last command, pip install --upgrade pip
, ensures that we have the latest version of pip
installed.