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Flask By Example

By : Gareth Dwyer
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Flask By Example

By: Gareth Dwyer

Overview of this book

This book will take you on a journey from learning about web development using Flask to building fully functional web applications. In the first major project, we develop a dynamic Headlines application that displays the latest news headlines along with up-to-date currency and weather information. In project two, we build a Crime Map application that is backed by a MySQL database, allowing users to submit information on and the location of crimes in order to plot danger zones and other crime trends within an area. In the final project, we combine Flask with more modern technologies, such as Twitter's Bootstrap and the NoSQL database MongoDB, to create a Waiter Caller application that allows restaurant patrons to easily call a waiter to their table. This pragmatic tutorial will keep you engaged as you learn the crux of Flask by working on challenging real-world applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Flask By Example
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


That's it for this chapter. The major takeaways of this chapter were taking a look at how routing, both static and dynamic, are handled in Flask. You also learned a fairly messy way of formatting data using HTML and returning this to the user.

In the next chapter, we'll take a look at cleaner ways to separate our HTML code from our Python code using Jinja templates. We'll also have our app display more than a single news story.