Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

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We will again work in reference to our existing catalog application from the previous recipe. Let's modify our views to render templates and then display data from the database in these templates.

The following is the modified views.py code and the templates. The complete app can be downloaded from the code bundle provided with this book.

We will start by modifying our views, that is, flask_catalog_template/my_app/catalog/views.py, to render templates on specific handlers:

from flask import render_template 
 
@catalog.route('/') 
@catalog.route('/home') 
def home(): 
    return render_template('home.html') 

Notice the render_template() method. This method will render home.html when the home handler is called.

The method below handles ...