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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 custom widget

Just like we can create custom fields and validators, we can also create custom widgets. These widgets allow us to control how our fields will look at the frontend. Each field type has a widget associated with it. WTForms, by itself, provides a lot of basic and HTML5 widgets. In this recipe, to understand how to write a custom widget, we will convert our custom selection field for Category into a radio field. I agree with those of you who would argue that we can directly use the radio field provided by WTForms. Here, we are just trying to understand how to do it ourselves.

The widgets provided by default by WTForms can be found at https://wtforms.readthedocs.org/en/latest/widgets.html.

How to do it...

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