Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

Working with Views

For any web application, it is very important to control how you interact with web requests and the proper responses to be catered for these requests. This chapter takes us through the various methods of handling requests properly and designing them in the best way.

Flask offers several ways of designing and laying out the URL routing for our applications. Also, it gives us the flexibility to keep the architecture of our views as just functions or to create classes, which can be inherited and modified as required. In earlier versions, Flask just had function-based views. Later, however, in version 0.7, inspired by Django, Flask introduced the concept of pluggable views, which allows us to have classes and then write methods ...