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Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Shalabh Aggarwal
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Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Shalabh Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Flask, the lightweight Python web framework, is popular thanks to its powerful modular design that lets you build scalable web apps. With this recipe-based guide, you’ll explore modern solutions and best practices for Flask web development. Updated to the latest version of Flask and Python 3, this second edition of Flask Framework Cookbook moves away from some of the old and obsolete libraries and introduces new recipes on cutting-edge technologies. You’ll discover different ways of using Flask to create, deploy, and manage microservices. This Flask Python book starts by covering the different configurations that a Flask application can make use of, and then helps you work with templates and learn about the ORM and view layers. You’ll also be able to write an admin interface and get to grips with debugging and logging errors. Finally, you’ll learn a variety of deployment and post-deployment techniques for platforms such as Apache, Tornado, and Heroku. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained all the knowledge you need to confidently write Flask applications and scale them using standard industry practices.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Debugging, Error Handling, and Testing

Until now, in this book, we have concentrated on developing applications and adding features to them one at a time. It is very important to know how robust our application is and to keep track of how the application has been working and performing. This, in turn, gives rise to the need to be informed when something goes wrong in the application. It is normal to miss out on certain edge cases while developing the application, and usually, even the test cases miss them out. It would be great to know about these edge cases whenever they occur so that they can be handled accordingly.

Effective logging and the ability to debug quickly are a couple of the deciding factors when choosing a framework for application development. The better the logging and debugging support from the framework, the quicker the process of application development and...