Flask Mongodb (hosted on Back4App) Starter

Starter app for connecting flask app with mongo db hosted on Back4app (free DB)

Why create this template?

• Back4app provides FREE mongodb!
• There are no python resources on how to create a backend service that connects to Back4app (until this one)

Sample Demo

Before you Clone this repo

1. Create back4app.com account and create a sample database and collection
2. In back4app.com, obtain your credentials for the parse_service.py from these places:
   • API Server URL
     • 
   • App ID and Rest API Key
     • 
3. Copy these values into parse_service.py

Run it!

1. Install requirements pip install -U flask requests
2. Run it! python app.py

Test it out!

curl --location 'http://localhost:5000/food' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "food": "sushi"
}'

Documentation for Back4app Rest API

Want to do more? Here is the offical Rest API documentation for Parse: https://docs.parseplatform.org/rest/guide/