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Flask By Example

By : Gareth Dwyer
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Flask By Example

By: Gareth Dwyer

Overview of this book

This book will take you on a journey from learning about web development using Flask to building fully functional web applications. In the first major project, we develop a dynamic Headlines application that displays the latest news headlines along with up-to-date currency and weather information. In project two, we build a Crime Map application that is backed by a MySQL database, allowing users to submit information on and the location of crimes in order to plot danger zones and other crime trends within an area. In the final project, we combine Flask with more modern technologies, such as Twitter's Bootstrap and the NoSQL database MongoDB, to create a Waiter Caller application that allows restaurant patrons to easily call a waiter to their table. This pragmatic tutorial will keep you engaged as you learn the crux of Flask by working on challenging real-world applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Flask By Example
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


We've made our site a bit more user-friendly in this chapter, both in terms of functionality (by remembering our users' choices through cookies) and aesthetics (using CSS). We'll come back to both of these topics in later projects, in which we'll use cookies to allow users to log in and some more advanced CSS. This is the end of our Headlines project; we have a functioning Headlines application that displays news, weather, and currency information.

In the next chapter, we'll start building a new project: an interactive crime map.