Chapter 18. Additional Resources
You are pretty much done with this book. Congratulations! I hope the topics that I have covered have given you a solid base to begin building your own applications with Flask. The code examples are open source and have a permissive license, so you are welcome to use as much of my code as you want to seed your projects, even if they are of a commercial nature. In this short final chapter, I want to give you a list of additional tips and resources that might be useful as you continue working with Flask.
Using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Developing Flask applications in an integrated development environment (IDE) can be very convenient, since features such as code completion and an interactive debugger can speed up the coding process considerably. Some of the IDEs that work well with Flask are listed here:
- PyCharm: Commercial IDE from JetBrains with Community (free) and Professional (paid) editions, both compatible with Flask applications. Available on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
- PyDev: Open source IDE based on Eclipse. Available on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
- Python Tools for Visual Studio: Free IDE built as an extension to Microsoft’s Visual Studio environment. For Microsoft Windows only.
Tip
When configuring a Flask application to start under a debugger, add the --passthrough-errors --no-reload options to the runserver command. The first option disables the catching of errors by Flask so that exceptions thrown while a request ...
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