---
title: "GitHub for Beginners: Building a REST API with Copilot"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-for-beginners-building-a-rest-api-with-copilot-o9fr7w4m5
source_url: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/github-for-beginners-building-a-rest-api-with-copilot/
type: article
source: "GitHub Blog"
published: 2025-04-28T13:03:56.070Z
updated: 2025-04-28T13:04:12.088Z
tags: ["python", "github", "rest-api", "flask"]
reading_time: 16
upvotes: 11
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# GitHub for Beginners: Building a REST API with Copilot

**[GitHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog)** · 16 min read · 11 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This post is part of a series on using GitHub Copilot and demonstrates building a REST API for Planventure, a travel itinerary builder. It guides users through setting up a Flask environment, using Copilot to generate code for database models, authentication, and CRUD operations for trips. The post includes instructions for testing and debugging with tools like Bruno, and highlights using Copilot for generating code changes and documentation.

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