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Flask Framework Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Shalabh Aggarwal
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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to the latest version of Flask and Python, this third edition of the Flask Framework Cookbook moves away from the outdated libraries, updates content to incorporate new coding patterns, and introduces recipes for the latest tools.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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “In the preceding code, first, the instance folder is loaded from the given path; then, the configuration file is loaded from the config.cfg file in the given instance folder.

A block of code is set as follows:

PRODUCTS = {
    'iphone': {
        'name': 'iPhone 5S',
        'category': 'Phones',
        'price': 699,
},

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

from flask_wtf.file import FileField, FileRequired
class Product(db.Model):
    image_path = db.Column(db.String(255))
    def __init__(self, name, price, category, image_path):
        self.image_path = image_path

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ sudo apt update 
$ sudo apt install python3-dev 
$ sudo apt install apache2 apache2-dev

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “It can also handle the Remember me feature, account recovery features, and so on.”

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