Learning Flask Framework电子书

Learning Flask Framework

Table of Contents

Learning Flask Framework

Credits

About the Authors

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. Creating Your First Flask Application

What is Flask?

With great freedom comes great responsibility

Setting up a development environment

Supporting Python 3

Installing Python packages

Installing pip

Installing virtualenv

Why use virtualenv?

Installing virtualenv with pip

Creating your first Flask app

Installing Flask in your virtualenv

Hello, Flask!

Understanding the code

Routes and requests

Reading values from the request

Debugging Flask applications

Introducing the blog project

The spec

Creating the blog project

A barebones Flask app

Zooming out

The import flow

Summary

2. Relational Databases with SQLAlchemy

Why use a relational database?

Introducing SQLAlchemy

Installing SQLAlchemy

Using SQLAlchemy in our Flask app

Choosing a database engine

Connecting to the database

Creating the Entry model

Creating the Entry table

Working with the Entry model

Making changes to an existing entry

Deleting an entry

Retrieving blog entries

Filtering the list of entries

Special lookups

Combining expressions

Negation

Operator precedence

Building a tagging system

Adding and removing tags from entries

Using backrefs

Making changes to the schema

Adding Flask-Migrate to our project

Creating the initial migration

Adding a status column

Summary

3. Templates and Views

Introducing Jinja2

Basic template operations

Loops, control structures, and template programming

Jinja2 built-in filters

Creating a base template for the blog

Creating a URL scheme

Defining the URL routes

Building the index view

Building the detail view

Listing entries matching a given tag

Listing all the tags

Full-text search

Adding pagination links

Enhancing the blog app

Summary

4. Forms and Validation

Getting started with WTForms

Defining a form for the Entry model

A form with a view

The create.html template

Handling form submissions

Validating input and displaying error messages

Editing existing entries

The edit.html template

Deleting entries

Cleaning up

Using flash messages

Displaying flash messages in the template

Saving and modifying tags on posts

Image uploads

Processing file uploads

The image upload template

Serving static files

Summary

5. Authenticating Users

Creating a user model

Installing Flask-Login

Implementing the Flask-Login interface

Creating user objects

Login and logout views

The login template

Logging out

Accessing the current user

Restricting access to views

Storing an entry's author

Setting the author on blog entries

Protecting the edit and delete views

Displaying a user's drafts

Sessions

Summary

6. Building an Administrative Dashboard

Installing Flask-Admin

Adding Flask-Admin to our app

Exposing models through the Admin

Customizing the list views

Adding search and filtering to the list view

Customizing Admin model forms

Enhancing the User form

Generating slugs

Managing static assets via the Admin

Securing the admin website

Creating an authentication and authorization mixin

Setting up a custom index page

Flask-Admin templates

Reading more

Summary

7. AJAX and RESTful APIs

Creating a comment model

Creating a schema migration

Installing Flask-Restless

Setting up Flask-Restless

Making API requests

Creating comments using AJAX

AJAX form submissions

Validating data in the API

Preprocessors and postprocessors

Loading comments using AJAX

Retrieving the list of comments

Reading more

Summary

8. Testing Flask Apps

Unit testing

Python's unit test module

A simple math test

Flask and unit testing

Testing a page

Testing an API

Test-friendly configuration

Mocking objects

Logging and error reporting

Logging

Logging to file

Custom log messages

Levels

Error reporting

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Summary

9. Excellent Extensions

SeaSurf and CSRF protection of forms

Creating Atom feeds

Syntax highlighting using Pygments

Simple editing with Markdown

Caching with Flask-Cache and Redis

Creating secure, stable versions of your site by creating static content

Commenting on a static site

Synchronizing multiple editors

Asynchronous tasks with Celery

Creating command line instructions with Flask-script

References

Summary

10. Deploying Your Application

Running Flask with a WSGI server

Apache's httpd

Serving static files

Nginx

Serving static files

Gunicorn

Securing your site with SSL

Getting your certificate

Apache httpd

Nginx

Gunicorn

Automating deployment using Ansible

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Summary

Index