In this article, we are going to build a book API where the user can create a book, update the book, and fetch book by id.

Prerequisites

• Docker (1.6.0 or above)
• Docker-compose (1.26+)
• Python 3.5 or above

What Is Falcon Web Framework?

Falcon is a reliable, high-performance Python web framework for building large-scale app backends and microservices. It encourages the REST architectural style and tries to do as little as possible while remaining highly effective.

We are using docker-compose to easily set up a MongoDB instance with data persistent support.

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