Mastering Flask

Gain expertise in Flask to create dynamic and powerful web applications

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Jack Stouffer

Paid access

|Jan 2025

E-Book €30.99Institutions €130.95

Description

Gain expertise in Flask to create dynamic and powerful web applications

Key Features

Work with scalable Flask application structures to create complex web apps
Discover the most powerful Flask extensions and learn how to create one
Deploy your application to real-world platforms using this step-by-step guide
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Book Description

Starting from a simple Flask app, this book will walk through advanced topics while providing practical examples of the lessons learned. After building a simple Flask app, a proper app structure is demonstrated by transforming the app to use a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. With a scalable structure in hand, the next chapters use Flask extensions to provide extra functionality to the app, including user login and registration, NoSQL querying, a REST API, an admin interface, and more. Next, you’ll discover how to use unit testing to take the guesswork away from making sure the code is performing as it should. The book closes with a discussion of the different platforms that are available to deploy a Flask app on, the pros and cons of each one, and how to deploy on each one.

What you will learn

Set up a best practices Python environment
Use SQLAlchemy to programmatically query a database
Develop templates in Jinja
Set up an MVC environment for Flask
Discover NoSQL, when to use it, when not to, and how to use it
Develop a custom Flask extension
Use Celery to create asynchronous tasks

Who this book is for

If you are a Flask user who knows the basics of the library and how to create basic web pages with HTML and CSS, and you want to take your applications to the next level, this is the book for you. Harnessing the full power of Flask will allow you to create complex web applications with ease.