Flask Tutorial

DesertPy live coding demo from May 28th, 2014 on the Flask Web Framework. To get started, clone or download this repository and pip install flask.

The file demo.py is the actually file from the presentation and hipflask.py is the final product.

Resources

• Flask Docs
• The Flask Mega-Tutorial
• Flask and MongoEngine
• StackOverflow
• /r/flask

Talk Outline

Hello world

pip install flask

Debugging

raise hell

Templates

render_template

Static files

url_for

Dynamic Routing

@app.route

Json API

jsonify

Trevor Olson - @ZombieFeynman