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Conclusion

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- [Bruce] I hope you see why I love working with Flask. Look at what we've accomplished in just a few hours. We built a secure, functional API backed by a database. I've tried to stay laser-focused on covering Flask and API development, but there are a few obvious next steps. First, we didn't actually set up a production server. Doing so would probably have taken as much time as we devoted to the API code itself. You'll want to research deployment environments but I'll give you a few of my favorites. The fastest and easiest way to get our app out there is to use a service called PythonAnywhere. This service has a free tier with reasonably priced tiers above that. I like it because it generally cuts the installation time in half. PythonAnywhere will already have Python and Flask installed. You just need to set up your environment variables, install your requirements file and upload the app.py file. You can do all of this from a convenient web interface. There are tutorials from…

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