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Mastering Flask

By : Jack Stouffer
Book Image

Mastering Flask

By: Jack Stouffer

Overview of this book

Starting from a simple Flask app, this book will walk through advanced topics while providing practical examples of the lessons learned. After building a simple Flask app, a proper app structure is demonstrated by transforming the app to use a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. With a scalable structure in hand, the next chapters use Flask extensions to provide extra functionality to the app, including user login and registration, NoSQL querying, a REST API, an admin interface, and more. Next, you’ll discover how to use unit testing to take the guesswork away from making sure the code is performing as it should. The book closes with a discussion of the different platforms that are available to deploy a Flask app on, the pros and cons of each one, and how to deploy on each one.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Flask
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Creating Views with Templates

Now that we have our data in an easily accessible format, displaying the information in a web page becomes much easier. In this chapter, we will use the included templating language for Flask Jinja, to dynamically create HTML from our SQLAlchemy models. We will also examine Jinja's methods to automate the creation of HTML and modify data for presentation inside a template. Then, the chapter will end with automatically creating and validating HTML forms with Jinja.