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Flask Framework Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Shalabh Aggarwal
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Book Image

Flask Framework Cookbook - Third Edition

4.3 (4)
By: Shalabh Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Discover what makes Flask, the lightweight Python web framework, popular, as you delve into its modular design that enables the development of scalable web apps. With this practical guide, you'll explore modern solutions, recommended design patterns, and best practices for Flask web development. Updated to the latest version of Flask and Python, this third edition of the Flask Framework Cookbook moves away from the outdated libraries, updates content to incorporate new coding patterns, and introduces recipes for the latest tools. You'll explore different ways to integrate with GPT to build AI-ready Flask applications. The book starts with an exploration of Flask application configurations and then guides you through working with templates and understanding the ORM and view layers. You’ll also be able to write an admin interface and get to grips with testing using the factory pattern, debugging, and logging errors. Then you’ll discover different ways of using Flask to create, deploy, and manage microservices using AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes. Finally, you’ll gain insights into various deployment and post-deployment techniques for platforms such as Apache, Tornado, and Datadog. By the end of this book, you'll have acquired the knowledge necessary to write Flask applications that cater to a wide range of use cases in the best possible way and scale them using standard industry practices.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Flask Fundamentals
6
Part 2: Flask Deep Dive
12
Part 3: Advanced Flask

Part 1: Flask Fundamentals

As the name suggests, this part of the book focuses on the basic fundamental building blocks of any Flask web application. A clear understanding of these topics is essential to building scalable, configurable, and extensible web applications with Flask as we move to more complex topics.

Developers usually struggle with how to set up their Flask application configurations to suit different environments, such as development and production. At times, they might find it difficult to choose the best way to structure their Flask applications. The first chapter helps in answering such questions and many more.

The next three chapters focus on creating the foundational pillars of any web application – that is, models, views, and templates. A very important concept covered in these chapters concerns connecting multiple types of databases with your application.

The content in these chapters will be basic- to mid-level in complexity, and it will act as...