Flask-Admin provides a readymade admin interface for Flask applications. Flask-Admin also integrates nicely with SQLAlchemy to provide views for managing your application's models.

The following image gives is a sneak preview of what the Entry admin will look like by the end of this chapter:

While this amount of functionality requires relatively little code, we still have a lot to cover, so let's get started. Begin by installing Flask-Admin into virtualenv using pip. At the time of writing, the current version of Flask-Admin is 1.0.7.

(blog) $ pip install Flask-Admin
Downloading/unpacking Flask-Admin
...
Successfully installed Flask-Admin
Cleaning up...

You can test that it installed correctly if you wish by entering the following code:

(blog) $ python manage.py shell
In [1]: from flask.ext import admin
In [2]: print admin.__version__
1.0.7