Building Flask-based Web Apps

Episode #48, published Tue, Mar 1, 2016, recorded Tue, Feb 2, 2016

When you think of Python web microframeworks, Flask is definitely near the top of the list. With almost 19,000 stars on GitHub it's a powerful and extensible web framework and it even powers the bandwidth intensive audio delivery of the Talk Python To Me podcast.

In this episode, number 48, we'll talk with Miguel Grinberg who has written some amazing Flask tutorials, books, and open source projects!

Links from the show:

Miguel on Twitter: @miguelgrinberg
Miguel's blog: blog.miguelgrinberg.com
"Flask At Scale" tutorial at PyCon 2016 in Portland:
blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/flask-at-scale-tutorial-at-pycon-2016-in-portland
Flask Web Development (Amazon): amzn.to/1oVnibk
Flask Web Development (O'Reilly):
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031116.do?cmp=af-webplatform-books-videos-product_cj_9781449372620_%25zp

Open source projects
Flask-SocketIO: github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-SocketIO
Flask-Migrate: github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-Migrate
Flask-HTTPAuth: github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-HTTPAuth
python-socketio: github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio
Flask-Moment: github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-Moment
Flask-PageDown: github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-PageDown
Climax: github.com/miguelgrinberg/climax

Introduction to the PuDB Python Debugging Tool:
heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/pudb.html
Course Kickstarter: talkpython.fm/course
Michael's Online courses project:
blog.michaelckennedy.net/2016/02/16/im-building-20-online-python-courses-and-i-need-your-help-video-course-library-announced
Talk Python Training: https://training.talkpython.fm/

Want to go deeper? Check out our courses

Course: Python for the Absolute Beginner course

Course: HTMX + Flask: Modern Python Web Apps, Hold the JavaScript

Course: Modern APIs with FastAPI and Python

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, photography and the occasional movie review. Miguel is the author of the O'Reilly book "Flask Web Development”. He lives in beautiful Portland, Oregon.

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