Building REST API with Python, Falcon, and MongoDB

The purpose of this story is to explain how to implement a simple REST API with Python, Falcon, and MongoDB, deploy, and run it inside a docker container.

· Prerequisites
· Overview
∘ What Is Falcon Web Framework?
∘ Why use Falcon for microservices?
· Let’s code
∘ MongoDB setup
∘ Set up Falcon
∘ Project Structure
∘ Create models
∘ Resources
∘ Configure WSGI server
· Build and Run the Service Using Docker Compose
· Test the REST API:
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

• Docker (20.x.x or above)
• Docker-compose (2.5+)
• Python 3.5 or above
• Falcon 3.x.x

Overview

In this story, we are going to build a book API where the user can create a book, update the book, and fetch the book by id.

What Is Falcon Web Framework?