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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)

Adding a new language

By default, English is the language for applications built in Flask (and almost all web frameworks). In this recipe, we will add a second language to our application and add some translations for the display strings used in the application. The language displayed to the user will vary depending on the language that is currently set in the browser.

Getting ready

We will start with the installation of the Flask-Babel extension:

    $ pip3 install Flask-Babel 

This extension uses Babel, pytz, and speaklater to add i18n and l10n support to the application.

We will use our catalog application from Chapter 5, Webforms with WTForms.

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