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Building Web Applications with Flask

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

Building Web Applications with Flask

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

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Web Applications with Flask
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Structuring your projects


As Flask does not enforce a project structure, you've quite a lot of freedom to try out what best suits you. Large one-file projects work, Django-like structured projects work, flat architectures also work; the possibilities are many! Because of this, many projects emerge with their own suggested architecture; these projects are called boilerplates or skeletons. They focus on giving you a recipe to quickly start a new Flask project, taking advantage of their suggested way of organizing the code.

If you plan to create a large web application with Flask, you're strongly advised to take a look at at least one of these projects because they've probably already faced a few problems you could face and have come up with a solution: