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RESTful API Server Example deployments

This folder features a few deployment strategies for the example RESTful API server.

stack1 - RESTful API Server Example behind an nginx reverse proxy, stack managed using Docker Compose.
stack2 - stack1 running on uWSGI instead of the default Flask server.

It is advisable to run web services over HTTPS instead of HTTP. Take a look at Let's Encrypt if you don't want to pay money for SSL certificates.
It makes a lot of sense to use a reliable Reverse Proxy server in front of Flask (or any other framework, in fact). My choice is Nginx.
Using a Reverse Proxy, you should enable REVERSE_PROXY_SETUP in the config or pass EXAMPLE_API_REVERSE_PROXY_SETUP=1 via environment variables (the showcased stacks do that, so you don't need to do that if you follow the guide), so special proxyfied headers (X-Forwarded-Proto, and others) are taken into account.