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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


We now have a basic news summary site! You can display recent news from a number of different websites, see the headline, date, and summary for each recent article, and can click on any headline to visit the original article. You've only seen a tiny sample of the power of the Jinja language though—as we expand this project and other projects in future chapters, you'll see how it can be used for inheritance, conditional statements, and more.

In the next chapter, we'll add weather and currency information to our application, and look at ways to interact with our users.