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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)

Summary

As this chapter explained, there are many different options for hosting your application, each with their own pros and cons. Deciding on one depends on the amount of time and money you are willing to spend, as well as the total number of users you expect.

Now, we have reached the conclusion of the book. I hope that this book was helpful in building your understanding of Flask, and how it can be used to create applications of any degree of complexity with both ease and simple maintainability.

Web application development is a fast paced area that touches different technologies and concepts. Don't stop here—keep improving your Python skills, read about UX design, improve your knowledge on CSS and HTML, master SQL and query performance, and develop a single page application using Flask and Javascript. Each chapter of this book is an invitation for further knowledge...