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Building Web Applications with Flask

By : Italo M Campelo Maia, Jack Stouffer, Gareth Dwyer, Italo Maia
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Building Web Applications with Flask

By: Italo M Campelo Maia, Jack Stouffer, Gareth Dwyer, Italo Maia

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Building Web Applications with Flask
Italo M Campelo Maia | Jack Stouffer | Gareth Dwyer | Italo Maia
Jun, 2015 | 160 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Web Applications with Flask
Building Web Applications with Flask
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book
Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book
An introduction to Flask and its features
Summary
2
First App, How Hard Could it Be?
First App, How Hard Could it Be?
Hello World
Prerequisites and tools
Setting up a virtual environment
Understanding the "Hello World" app
Serving HTML pages
Summary
3
Man, Do I Like Templates!
Man, Do I Like Templates!
What is Jinja2 and how is it coupled with Flask?
What can you do with Jinja2?
Summary
4
Please Fill in This Form, Madam
Please Fill in This Form, Madam
HTML forms for the faint of heart
Handling forms
WTForms and you
Flask-WTF
Summary
5
Where Do You Store Your Stuff?
Where Do You Store Your Stuff?
SQLAlchemy
MongoDB
Relational versus NoSQL
Summary
6
But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!
But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!
Beyond GET
Flask-Restless
Summary
7
If Ain't Tested, It Ain't Game, Bro!
If Ain't Tested, It Ain't Game, Bro!
What kinds of test are there?
Fixtures
Summary
8
Tips and Tricks or Flask Wizardry 101
Tips and Tricks or Flask Wizardry 101
Overengineering
Premature optimization
Blueprints 101
Oh God, please tell me you have the logs…
Debugging, DebugToolbar, and happiness
Sessions or storing user data between requests
Exercise
Summary
9
Extensions, How I Love Thee
Extensions, How I Love Thee
How to configure extensions
Flask-Principal and Flask-Login (aka Batman and Robin)
Summary
10
What Now?
What Now?
You deploy better than my ex
StackOverflow
Structuring your projects
Summary
Postscript
Index
Index

StackOverflow

StackOverflow is the new Google term for hacking and software development. A lot of people use it, so there are a lot of common questions and great answers at your disposal. Just spend a few hours reading the latest trends on http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=flask, and you're sure to have learned much!

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