👨🏻‍💻 How to Design Better REST APIs in Python

In this short, I’ll share a few tips and tricks to write a well-designed RESTful API in Python.

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[ArjanCodes]

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[MstFink]

TDD in python allways buggs me. The unit under test should be a module or better its public interface, but python makes it really hard to have non public stuff in a module, which is a problem in teams. Any ideas how to make clear what the actual unit is in python?

[NathanHedglin]

If you're mocking your controllers, then you're doing something wrong. There shouldn't be any real business logic there to mock. DI is overused and has performance overhead.

[XfStef]

What point is there in having QA then?
I think TDD is overhyped and too time intensive for most projects.
Requirements will change constantly which means all the tests you've painstakingly written will have to be changed as well ensuring the developers work twice as much as they should.

Tests are good for making sure security measures are in place, for example you don't want your code to allow SQL injections. And that's pretty much it. Everything else the QA department should be in charge of testing.