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Mastering Flask Web Development - Second Edition

By : Daniel Gaspar, Jack Stouffer
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Mastering Flask Web Development - Second Edition

By: Daniel Gaspar, Jack Stouffer

Overview of this book

Flask is a popular Python framework known for its lightweight and modular design. Mastering Flask Web Development will take you on a complete tour of the Flask environment and teach you how to build a production-ready application. You'll begin by learning about the installation of Flask and basic concepts such as MVC and accessing a database using an ORM. You will learn how to structure your application so that it can scale to any size with the help of Flask Blueprints. You'll then learn how to use Jinja2 templates with a high level of expertise. You will also learn how to develop with SQL or NoSQL databases, and how to develop REST APIs and JWT authentication. Next, you'll move on to build role-based access security and authentication using LDAP, OAuth, OpenID, and database. Also learn how to create asynchronous tasks that can scale to any load using Celery and RabbitMQ or Redis. You will also be introduced to a wide range of Flask extensions to leverage technologies such as cache, localization, and debugging. You will learn how to build your own Flask extensions, how to write tests, and how to get test coverage reports. Finally, you will learn how to deploy your application on Heroku and AWS using various technologies, such as Docker, CloudFormation, and Elastic Beanstalk, and will also learn how to develop Jenkins pipelines to build, test, and deploy applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Flask Admin

In Chapter 6, Securing Your App, we created an interface to allow users to create and edit blog posts without having to use the CLI. This was adequate to demonstrate the security measures presented in the chapter, but there is still no way for posts to be deleted, or to assign tags to posts, using the interface. We also do not have a way to delete or edit comments that is hidden from regular users. What our app needs is a fully featured administrator interface, in the same vein as the WordPress interface. This is such a common requirement for apps that a Flask extension, called Flask Admin, was produced to help developers create administrator interfaces easily. Once more, we can find Flask Admin on the list of dependencies in requirements.txt.

Since we are going to create a full administrator interface, with forms, views and templates, Flask Admin is a good candidate...