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Building Web Applications with Flask

Building Web Applications with Flask

By : Italo Maia
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Building Web Applications with Flask

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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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book
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1. Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book
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An introduction to Flask and its features
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Summary
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2. First App, How Hard Could it Be?
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2. First App, How Hard Could it Be?
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Hello World
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Prerequisites and tools
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Setting up a virtual environment
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Understanding the "Hello World" app
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Serving HTML pages
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3. Man, Do I Like Templates!
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3. Man, Do I Like Templates!
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What is Jinja2 and how is it coupled with Flask?
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What can you do with Jinja2?
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4. Please Fill in This Form, Madam
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4. Please Fill in This Form, Madam
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HTML forms for the faint of heart
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Handling forms
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WTForms and you
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Flask-WTF
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Summary
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5. Where Do You Store Your Stuff?
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5. Where Do You Store Your Stuff?
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SQLAlchemy
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MongoDB
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Relational versus NoSQL
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6. But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!
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6. But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!
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Beyond GET
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Flask-Restless
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7. If Ain't Tested, It Ain't Game, Bro!
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7. If Ain't Tested, It Ain't Game, Bro!
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What kinds of test are there?
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Fixtures
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8. Tips and Tricks or Flask Wizardry 101
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8. Tips and Tricks or Flask Wizardry 101
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Overengineering
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Premature optimization
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Blueprints 101
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Oh God, please tell me you have the logs…
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Debugging, DebugToolbar, and happiness
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Sessions or storing user data between requests
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Exercise
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9. Extensions, How I Love Thee
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9. Extensions, How I Love Thee
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How to configure extensions
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Flask-Principal and Flask-Login (aka Batman and Robin)
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10. What Now?
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10. What Now?
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You deploy better than my ex
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StackOverflow
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Structuring your projects
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Postscript
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Index
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Index

Chapter 6. But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!

REST is an architectural style that has been gaining momentum these last few years due to its many features and architectural constraints such as cacheability, stateless behavior, and its interface requirement.

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For a nice overview of REST architecture, refer to http://www.drdobbs.com/Web-development/restful-Web-services-a-tutorial/240169069 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer.

Our focus in this chapter will be on RESTful Web Services and APIs—that is, Web services and Web APIs following the REST architecture. Let's start at the beginning: what is a Web service?

A Web service is a Web application that can be consulted by your application as if it was an API, improving the user experience. If your RESTful Web service does not need to be called from a traditional UI interface, and may be used standalone, then what you have is a RESTful Web Service API, "RESTful API" for short, that works just...

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