Flask

Flask is a web framework for python. If Django is the Express of the python world, Flask is the Koa (these analogies aren’t perfectly accurate, but analogies never are).

Hello world

from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def hello_world():
    return 'Hello world!'

Set FLASK_APP to the name of the file containing the app.
Set FLASK_ENV to development if in dev environment.

Run flask run to run the app.

Path parameters

@app.route('/user/<username>')
def user_profile(username):
    return 'User profile for {}'.format(username)

@app.route('/user/<string:username>')
def user_profile(username):
    return 'User profile for {}'.format(username)

Converters:

string
int
float
path
uuid

Checking HTTP method

from flask import request

@app.route('/resource/<id>', methods=['GET', 'PUT'])
def resource(id):
    return resource.method

Trailing slash vs no trailing slash

In the following example, the canonical URL is /path/. /path will redirect to /path/

app.route('/path/')

The opposite is true in the following example.

app.route('/path/')

URL building

from flask import url_for

@app.route('/')
def index():
    ...

@app.route('/dashboard')
def dashboard():
    ...

@app.route('/user/<username>')
def profile():
    ...

url_for('index') # '/'
url_for('dashboard', page='2') # '/dashboard?page=2'
url_for('profile', username='ansh') # '/user/ansh'

Static files

In production, web server software should serve static files. In development, flask is configured to automatically serve files in static under /static.

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