10 tips every Flask developer should know

Episode #264, published Tue, May 12, 2020, recorded Fri, May 1, 2020

Are you a web developer who uses Flask? It has become the most popular Python web framework. Even if you have used it for years, I bet we cover at least one thing that will surprise you and make your Flask code better.

Join me as I speak with Miguel Grinberg about his top 10 list for tips and tricks in the Flask world. They're great!

The 10 tips

No need to use jsonify anymore
Do not store sensitive information in the user session
Using a .env file for secrets - python-dotenv
Windows laptops and Chromebooks are both great Python/Flask development machines with their Linux emulation
Differences between App context and Request context
Flask outside of a web server (Celery workers, cron jobs, etc.)
Use https://github.com/TypeError/secure.py
Use httpie instead of curl to send requests to your app
Flask for asyncio: Quart https://pgjones.gitlab.io/quart/
Greenlet frameworks (gevent, eventlet) and Flask
Blueprints

Links from the show

Miguel on Twitter: @miguelgrinberg
Miguel's blog: blog.miguelgrinberg.com

python-dotenv package: pypi.org
httpie package: httpie.org
Quart: pgjones.gitlab.io
Talk Python episode on Quart: talkpython.fm
secure.py package: github.com
Episode transcripts: talkpython.fm

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Miguel Grinberg

Miguel Grinberg is a Software Developer at Rackspace, where he works on cloud applications. He blogs at blog.miguelgrinberg.com about a variety of topics including web development, Python, robotics, ...

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