Flask By Example

Unleash the full potential of the Flask web framework by creating
simple yet powerful web applications

Key Features

• The most up-to-date book on Flask on the market
• Create your own world-class applications and master the art of Flask by unravelling its enigma through this journey
• This step-by-step tutorial is packed with examples on blending different technologies with Flask to get you up and running

Book Description

What you will learn

• * Build three web applications from the ground up using the powerful Python micro
• framework, Flask.
• * Dynamically display data to your viewers, based on their requests
• * Store user and static data in SQL and NoSQL databases and use this data to power
• your web applications
• * Create a good user experience by combining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• * Harness the convenience of freely available APIs, including OpenWeatherMap, Open
• Exchange Rates, and bitly
• * Extend your applications to build advanced functionality, such as a user account
• control system using Flask-Login
• * Learn about web application security and defend against common attacks, such as
• SQL injection and XSS

Who this book is for

Have you looked at PHP and hated the clunky bloated syntax? Or looked at .Net and wished it was more open and flexible? Maybe you’ve tried your hand at GUI libraries in Python and found them hard to use? If your answer to any one of these questions is a yes, then this is just the book for you.
It is also intended for people who know the basics of Python and want to learn how to use it to build powerful solutions with a web front-end.