Flask Web Development 2e: Developing Web Applications with Python

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Take full creative control of your web applications with Flask, the Python-based microframework. With the second edition of this hands-on book, youâ ll learn Flask from the ground up by developing a complete, real-world application created by author Miguel Grinberg. This refreshed edition accounts for important technology changes that have occurred in the past three years. Explore the frameworkâ s core functionality, and learn how to extend applications with advanced web techniques such as database migrations and an application programming interface. The first part of each chapter provides you with reference and background for the topic in question, while the second part guides you through a hands-on implementation. If you have Python experience, youâ re ready to take advantage of the creative freedom Flask provides. Three sections include: A thorough introduction to Flask: explore web application development basics with Flask and an application structure appropriate for medium and large applications Building Flasky: learn how to build an open source blogging application step-by-step by reusing templates, paginating item lists, and working with rich text Going the last mile: dive into unit testing strategies, performance analysis techniques, and deployment options for your Flask application Review: great resource for a flask project - The book itself is very good and helpful. Clearly describes various aspects of flask. Review: Wow!! I have never read a technical book this good! Everything is amazing! - OMG, I gush! This is just amazing! Where to begin? First, Miguel has a casual but very clear writing style that made me, as a reader, feel like, "you got this". Next, he *knows his stuff*. He does not just teach flask, but also touches upon all the things that you will need to know in order to create a web server serving a flask app. He had the most ingenious way to structure the book: he opens with some introduction of the basics of Flask, and once enough is understood, he teaches all the new concepts via an actual app that you can make along with him. What makes this especially useful/amazing/helpful is the subject matter itself: Flask is a fairly minimal web framework, so lots of plugins and additional tools are needed, so you get to see all the other stuff he pulls in that is necessary, but not strictly Flask. He has the *absolute best GitHub repo* associated with the book. Lots of folks make GitHub repos for their books; I always think this is a good thing. But with Miguel, he went ahead and created commits and tags *associated with each part of the book*!!! You don't understand how awesome this is until you start using it. You're making an entire app, a fairly big project. If you just looked at all the code at once, it could be daunting. If he didn't supply tags, it would be hard to know where to go. But instead, he'll have *in the textbook* a comment like "checkout tag 7b" (the second tag in the 7th chapter). If you check out this tag in your Git repo, your code will look exactly like his. Lastly, he covers a good deal of unit testing, including covering Selenium, if I remember right. (I don't have the book right in front of me now.) I *never* choose a technical book by author, and instead by topic. But I think Miguel Grinberg might have just changed my mind... I am so looking forward to reading something else by him. :)