Suppose there are several similar MongoEngine models and there is a need to modify them through REST. Here is an example how to create a set of such similar resources.

In a simple application with a several endpoints, it’s ok to use the default Flask routes.

@app.route('/api/v1.0/users', methods=['GET'])
def get_users():
    return jsonify({'objects': users})

But when an application becomes bigger, it can be useful to use a some REST framework or split it on the smaller apps. The REST framework is used to:

• enforce best practices
• simplify: versioning, serialization, documentation, authenication
• provide browsable API