A flask app which retrieves and displays the Star Wars API (SWAPI) planet data. I made this app to learn how to use APIs and pytest. This is also the first app I've deployed to Heroku.

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1. Clone the repository
2. Run setup.sh (command: bash setup.sh). This will create the virtual environment and install requirments.
3. Activate the virtual environment (command: source venv/bin/activate)
4. Run the app (command: flask run)
5. Open a browser and go to http://localhost:5000/

BasicApi class: retrieves the data from SWAPI and caches it. I've tried to make this as reusable as possible for other APIs. I added caching as the requests were taking a few seconds to return data.

Planet class: takes the dictionary returned by the BasicApi class and uses the data to create a Planet object.

The main page displays all planets. These can be filtered by climate or terrain by clicking on the links in these fields.

What I learned:

• Setting up linting in VSCode with Flake8 and changing settings
• Using requests to get data from an API
• Caching the response
• Creating routes for variable URLs
• Creating tests and fixtures with pytest
• Improved CSS layout skills
• Deploying to Heroku

Resources:

• SWAPI Planets Documentation
• How to use APIs
• Caching
• Deploying a Flask app to Heroku