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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)

Admin Interface for Flask Apps

Many applications require an interface that provides special privileges to some users and can be used to maintain and upgrade an application's resources. For example, we can have an interface in an e-commerce application that will allow some special users to create categories, products, and more. Some users might have permissions to handle other users who shop on the website, deal with their account information, and so on. Similarly, there can be many cases where we will need to isolate some parts of the interface of our application from normal users.

In comparison to the very popular Python-based web framework, Django, Flask does not provide any admin interface by default. Although this can be seen as a shortcoming by many, this gives developers the flexibility to create the admin interface as per their requirements and have complete control...