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Building Web Applications with Flask

By : Italo Maia

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Building Web Applications with Flask

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By: Italo Maia

Overview of this book

If you are a Python web developer who wants to learn more about developing applications in Flask and scaling them with industry-standard practices, this is the book for you.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book

1. Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book

An introduction to Flask and its features

Summary

2. First App, How Hard Could it Be?

2. First App, How Hard Could it Be?

Hello World

Prerequisites and tools

Setting up a virtual environment

Understanding the "Hello World" app

Serving HTML pages

Summary

3. Man, Do I Like Templates!

3. Man, Do I Like Templates!

What is Jinja2 and how is it coupled with Flask?

What can you do with Jinja2?

Summary

4. Please Fill in This Form, Madam

4. Please Fill in This Form, Madam

HTML forms for the faint of heart

Handling forms

WTForms and you

Flask-WTF

Summary

5. Where Do You Store Your Stuff?

5. Where Do You Store Your Stuff?

SQLAlchemy

MongoDB

Relational versus NoSQL

Summary

6. But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!

6. But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!

Beyond GET

Flask-Restless

Summary

7. If Ain't Tested, It Ain't Game, Bro!

7. If Ain't Tested, It Ain't Game, Bro!

What kinds of test are there?

Fixtures

Summary

8. Tips and Tricks or Flask Wizardry 101

8. Tips and Tricks or Flask Wizardry 101

Overengineering

Premature optimization

Blueprints 101

Oh God, please tell me you have the logs…

Debugging, DebugToolbar, and happiness

Sessions or storing user data between requests

Exercise

Summary

9. Extensions, How I Love Thee

9. Extensions, How I Love Thee

How to configure extensions

Flask-Principal and Flask-Login (aka Batman and Robin)

Summary

10. What Now?

10. What Now?

You deploy better than my ex

StackOverflow

Structuring your projects

Summary

Postscript

Index

Index

Chapter 1. Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book

What is Flask? It's a question that humanity has been pondering for millennia... well, actually, since 2010, when Armin Ronacher first committed to the project. Flask is a Web framework and is quite different from what most people are used to working with. It is less presumptuous about how your application should look or what you should use to make it available. The BSD licensed package has all this!

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