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Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Shalabh Aggarwal
Book Image

Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Shalabh Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Flask, the lightweight Python web framework, is popular thanks to its powerful modular design that lets you build scalable web apps. With this recipe-based guide, you’ll explore modern solutions and best practices for Flask web development. Updated to the latest version of Flask and Python 3, this second edition of Flask Framework Cookbook moves away from some of the old and obsolete libraries and introduces new recipes on cutting-edge technologies. You’ll discover different ways of using Flask to create, deploy, and manage microservices. This Flask Python book starts by covering the different configurations that a Flask application can make use of, and then helps you work with templates and learn about the ORM and view layers. You’ll also be able to write an admin interface and get to grips with debugging and logging errors. Finally, you’ll learn a variety of deployment and post-deployment techniques for platforms such as Apache, Tornado, and Heroku. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained all the knowledge you need to confidently write Flask applications and scale them using standard industry practices.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Creating a relational category model

In our previous recipe, we created a simple product model, which had a couple of fields. In practice, however, the applications are much more complex and have various relationships among their tables. These relationships can be one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many. In this recipe, we will try to understand some of these relationships with the help of an example.

How to do it...

Let's say we want to have product categories where each category can have multiple products, but each product should have only one category. Let's do this by modifying some files from the preceding application. We will make modifications to both models and views. In models, we will add...