Category: Python

2013-10-24T06:49:48Z

Flask-Moment: Flask and Jinja2 Integration with moment.js

If you followed my Mega-Tutorial articles you may remember that I dedicated an entire article to the topic of rendering dates and times.

I needed to revisit this problem for my upcoming book, and this time I decided to package this functionality in an extension. That is how Flask-Moment was born.

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2013-09-09T06:12:19Z

Flask-Migrate: Alembic database migration wrapper for Flask

In this post I introduce you to Flask-Migrate, a new database migration handler for Flask based on Alembic that I just made public.

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2013-09-01T23:37:05Z

The Package Dependency Blues

Today I'm going to tell you a story. This is a true story about a web developer that I will call Peter.

Peter is the author of a web application that I will call App. He wrote App in Python, using a relatively popular web framework and a handful of packages that extend the framework with additional features. The actual names of these packages aren't important to the story, so I will call the framework Foo, and one of its extensions Bar.

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2013-07-28T19:11:38Z

Designing a RESTful API using Flask-RESTful

This is the third article in which I explore different aspects of writing RESTful APIs using the Flask microframework. Here is the first, and the second.

The example RESTful server I wrote before used only Flask as a dependency. Today I will show you how to write the same server using Flask-RESTful, a Flask extension that simplifies the creation of APIs.

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2013-07-22T05:11:05Z

Web Development With Flask

You probably noticed that lately I haven't been blogging as frequently as I used to. Today I'm letting you in on my little secret:

Flask Book front page

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2013-06-24T07:36:05Z

Flask-Runner: Command Line Options for Flask

I just published a little extension for Flask that exposes some of the options that can be given when calling app.run().

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2013-05-20T07:12:40Z

Designing a RESTful API with Python and Flask

In recent years REST (REpresentational State Transfer) has emerged as the standard architectural design for web services and web APIs.

In this article I'm going to show you how easy it is to create a RESTful web service using Python and the Flask microframework.

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2013-04-24T06:24:58Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial, Part XVIII: Deployment on the Heroku Cloud

(Great news! There is a new version of this tutorial!)

This is the eighteenth article in the series in which I document my experience writing web applications in Python using the Flask microframework.

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2013-04-15T06:14:46Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial, Part XVII: Deployment on Linux (even on the Raspberry Pi!)

(Great news! There is a new version of this tutorial!)

This is the seventeenth article in the series in which I document my experience writing web applications in Python using the Flask microframework.

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2013-03-10T04:19:00Z

The Flask Mega-Tutorial, Part XVI: Debugging, Testing and Profiling

(Great news! There is a new version of this tutorial!)

This is the sixteenth article in the series in which I document my experience writing web applications in Python using the Flask microframework.

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