Featured resource
pluralsight tech forecast
2025 Tech Forecast

Which technologies will dominate in 2025? And what skills do you need to keep up?

Check it out
Hamburger Icon
  • Course
    • Libraries: If you want this course, consider one of these libraries.
    • Core Tech

Flask 1 Users, Sessions, and Authentication

Managing user accounts inside of the web applications requires the use of sessions. This course will teach you how to implement authentication and authorization inside of the Flask web application.

Mateo Prigl - Pluralsight course - Flask 1 Users, Sessions, and Authentication
by Mateo Prigl

What you'll learn

Most of the modern applications have some kind of an authentication system. In this course, Flask 1 Users, Sessions, and Authentication you’ll learn to implement this system in Flask. First, you’ll explore how to use cookies and sessions to login and sign up new users to the site. Next, you’ll discover how to implement cookie based “remember me” functionality and create user roles. Finally, you’ll learn how to allow users to reset their passwords and require the account confirmation over an email. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of managing sessions and users in Flask needed to implement a fully featured authentication system.

Table of contents

About the author

Mateo Prigl - Pluralsight course - Flask 1 Users, Sessions, and Authentication
Mateo Prigl

Mateo is currently a full stack web developer working for a company that has clients from Europe and North America. His niche in programming was mostly web oriented, while freelancing, working on small startups and companies that require his services. Go(lang), Elixir, Ruby and C are his favorite languages and also the ones he’s mostly working with other then PHP in day to day work. He has a big passion for learning and teaching what he knows the best. His big interests recently have been the fields of DevOps, Linux, functional programming and machine learning.

More Courses by Mateo