From the course: Building RESTful APIs with Flask
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- [Instructor] Most APIs involve user registration and logins, so you can track your app's users and grant them privileges. In the Planetary API, I want to allow registration for the planet discovering scientific community. In order to register a new planet or edit or delete an existing planet, you must be logged in. Listing the planets, planet details, and the registration endpoint itself will not require a login. There are several prebuilt login and user management plugins if you don't want to build one yourself. There's Flask-Login, which handles logging in, logging out, and session management. There's also Flask-User, which handles user registration, login, logout, and role based security, like the kind I mentioned earlier. When evaluating these plugins, remember traditionally Flask is used to make traditional template based websites. I don't like the idea of storing session data in my API projects, so I don't use anything that requires session management. Also, if you want to use…
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