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Building Web Applications with Flask
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Building Web Applications with Flask

by Italo Maia
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
3h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1. Flask in a Flask, I Mean, Book

What is Flask? It's a question that humanity has been pondering for millennia... well, actually, since 2010, when Armin Ronacher first committed to the project. Flask is a Web framework and is quite different from what most people are used to working with. It is less presumptuous about how your application should look or what you should use to make it available. The BSD licensed package has all this!

An introduction to Flask and its features

The Flask framework is actually a glue, a very nice one, that sticks together the amazing Werkzeug and Jinja2 frameworks, responsible for answering requests and presenting the output (HTML, maybe). In the MVC architecture, also known as Model-View-Controller, Flask covers ...

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