Learning Flask Framework

Creating your first Flask app

Now that we have the proper tools installed, we're ready to create our first Flask app. To begin, create a directory somewhere convenient that will hold all of your Python projects. At the command prompt or terminal, navigate to your projects directory; mine is /home/charles/projects, or ~/projects for short on Unix-based systems.

$ mkdir ~/projects
$ cd ~/projects

Now we will create a virtualenv. The commands below will create a new directory named hello_flask inside your projects folder that contains a complete, isolated Python environment.

$ virtualenv hello_flask

New python executable in hello_flask/bin/python2.
Also creating executable in hello_flask/bin/python
Installing setuptools............done.
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