Chapter 1. Creating Your First Flask Application
Flask is fun. This bold declaration is one of the first things you see when you view the official Flask documentation and, over the course of this book, you will come to understand why so many Python developers agree.
In this chapter we shall:
- Briefly discuss the features of the Flask framework
- Set up a development environment and install Flask
- Implement a minimal Flask app and analyze how it works
- Experiment with commonly used APIs and the interactive debugger
- Start working on the blog project that will be progressively enhanced over the course of the book
What is Flask?
Flask is a lightweight Web framework written in Python. Flask started out as an April fool's joke that became a highly popular underdog ...
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