Introduction to the Flask Microframework
This course teaches the basics of web development with the Flask microframework. It will teach you everything you need to become a productive Python web developer with this new and popular framework.
What you'll learn
Flask is a relatively new framework that has taken the Python web development community by storm: in a short time it became one of the most popular frameworks around. It offers a lot of flexibility and clean code with a lot of extensibility. You won't feel dragged down by a huge framework that tells you what to do; instead, you'll feel free, productive, and creative!
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Demo: Starting a Project 7m
- Review: Debug Mode and render_template 1m
- Demo: HTML Templates With Jinja2 4m
- Review: Jinja2 Basics 2m
- Demo: Using url_for to Generate Links 2m
- Demo: Template Inheritance 4m
- Review: Maintainable Links With url_for 3m
- Review: Template Inheritance 1m
- Demo: Custom Error Pages 2m
- Resources and Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Demo: Views and Forms 5m
- Review: Views, Forms, Post-Redirect-Get 5m
- The Session and Message Flashing 5m
- If and For 3m
- Demo: Using WTForms 8m
- Demo: Showing Form Errors 2m
- Review: Using WTForms 4m
- Demo: Custom Validation 3m
- Demo: A Jinja Macro for Rendering Forms 3m
- Resources and Summary 2m
- Introduction 1m
- Demo: Our First Model Classes 5m
- Review: Models With Flask-SQLAlchemy 3m
- Demo: Storing and Retrieving Data 5m
- Review: Storing Data and Simple Queries 2m
- Demo: Storing and Retrieving New Bookmarks 3m
- Demo: A Manager Script With Flask-Script 1m
- Demo: A One-To-Many Relation 4m
- Review: One-To-Many Relations and Lazy Loading 2m
- Demo: Breaking the Project Up into Smaller Files 2m
- Demo: Adding a User Page 3m
- Final Review 1m
- Resources And Summary 1m
- Introduction 2m
- Demo: Fixing the Bookmark Layout 5m
- Demo: Editing Bookmarks 5m
- Review: Jinja Filters and Populating Objects 5m
- Demo: Database Migrations With Flask-Migrate 4m
- Demo: A Many to Many Relation 5m
- Review: Flask-Migrate 2m
- Demo: Forms and Views for Tagging 5m
- Demo: Integrating JavaScript 5m
- Demo: A Context Processor 3m
- Demo: Context Processors and Super() 1m
- Demo: A Delete Page 3m
- Resources and Summary 2m
About the author
After years of working in software development, Reindert-Jan Ekker switched to teaching programmers in 2010 and never looked back. He authors Pluralsight courses and teaches classes about Python, data science, devops (among others). Even though he squeezes some development jobs in here and there, teaching is his real passion and he is looking forward to share this passion with you.