Web applications commonly provide a set of features such as user authentication and data storage. As we know from the previous chapter, App Engine provides the services and tools needed to implement such features and the best way to learn how to use them is by writing a web application and seeing the platform in action.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Further details of the webapp2 framework
How to authenticate users
Storing data on Google Cloud Datastore
Building HTML pages using templates
Serving static files