Building Web Applications with Flask电子书

Building Web Applications with Flask

Table of Contents

Building Web Applications with Flask

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book

An introduction to Flask and its features

Summary

2. First App, How Hard Could it Be?

Hello World

Prerequisites and tools

Setting up a virtual environment

Understanding the "Hello World" app

Serving HTML pages

Summary

3. Man, Do I Like Templates!

What is Jinja2 and how is it coupled with Flask?

What can you do with Jinja2?

Control structures

Macros

Extensions

Filters

Messing with the template context

Summary

4. Please Fill in This Form, Madam

HTML forms for the faint of heart

Handling forms

WTForms and you

Flask-WTF

Integration with WTForms

Securing forms with a CSRF token

Challenges

Summary

5. Where Do You Store Your Stuff?

SQLAlchemy

Concepts

Hands on

Flask-SQLAlchemy

MongoDB

MongoEngine

Flask-MongoEngine

Relational versus NoSQL

Summary

6. But I Wanna REST Mom, Now!

Beyond GET

Flask-Restless

Summary

7. If Ain't Tested, It Ain't Game, Bro!

What kinds of test are there?

Unit testing

Behavior testing

Flask-testing

LiveServer

Extra assertions

JSON handle

Fixtures

Extra – integration testing

Summary

8. Tips and Tricks or Flask Wizardry 101

Overengineering

Premature optimization

Blueprints 101

Oh God, please tell me you have the logs…

Debugging, DebugToolbar, and happiness

Flask-DebugToolbar

Sessions or storing user data between requests

Exercise

Summary

9. Extensions, How I Love Thee

How to configure extensions

Flask-Principal and Flask-Login (aka Batman and Robin)

Admin like a boss

Custom pages

Summary

10. What Now?

You deploy better than my ex

Placing your code in a server

Setting up your database

Setting up the web server

StackOverflow

Structuring your projects

Summary

Postscript

Index