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Published inAug 2019
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Philipp Kats
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Philipp Kats is a researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab, NYU CUSP, a research fellow at Kazan Federal University, and a data scientist at StreetEasy, with many years of experience in software development. His interests include data analysis, urban studies, data journalism, and visualization. Having a bachelor's degree in architectural design and a having followed the rocky path (at first) of being a self-taught developer, Philipp knows the pain points of learning programming and is eager to share his experience.
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David Katz is a researcher and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics. As a mathematician at heart, he sees code as a tool to express his questions. David believes that code literacy is essential as it applies to most disciplines and professions. David is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has 6 years of experience teaching college and high school students.
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Building a web page

While FastAPI is focused on the APIs, it is still entirely possible to serve HTML pages as well. The code will be almost identical to the preceding code—except that our functions need to return this HTML code.

The most common approach to generate HTML in Python is to use the Jinja2 templating engine—that way, you write the template as an HTML code with some injections of Python and later render them by feeding it with the variables; Jinja will execute and hide the injections, returning the resultant page.

For the sake of building a simple example, however, we will use another package: VDOM, which allows us to generate VDOMs (short for Virtual Document Object Models) in Python and then convert them into HTML. Flask is great for smaller projects, but not for large and complex applications.

To separate this page from the main API, let's create...

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Published in: Aug 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789535365

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Philipp Kats

Philipp Kats is a researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab, NYU CUSP, a research fellow at Kazan Federal University, and a data scientist at StreetEasy, with many years of experience in software development. His interests include data analysis, urban studies, data journalism, and visualization. Having a bachelor's degree in architectural design and a having followed the rocky path (at first) of being a self-taught developer, Philipp knows the pain points of learning programming and is eager to share his experience.
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David Katz

David Katz is a researcher and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics. As a mathematician at heart, he sees code as a tool to express his questions. David believes that code literacy is essential as it applies to most disciplines and professions. David is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has 6 years of experience teaching college and high school students.
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