I have come to Flask from Django and in this post I am writing down my thoughts as I get more comfortable with Flask globals. Request and Application Context from flask import request, current_app, g request context In that simple line, we have imported three global objects. One is the request object and other two […]
Both Django and Flask rely on SECRET_KEY to generate things like session IDs, cookies etc. Here is a safe way to generate them. Note that this relies on the secrets module introduced in Python 3.6 and onwards. From the Python docs: The secrets module is used for generating cryptographically strong random numbers suitable for managing […]
First and foremost: this : https://flask-sqlalchemy.palletsprojects.com/en/2.x/ This is the old Flask website built in flask. Some patterns are outdated. But still pretty nice to gloss over with a cup of tea and some buiscuits. 🙂 https://github.com/pallets/flask-website/tree/master/flask_website scoped_session(sessionmaker()) or plain sessionmaker() ? Well, the recommended pattern is to use scoped_session as it is considered thread safe. […]
Setup Environment Step 1: pipenv install –python 3.8 Step 2: pipenv shell Step 3: pipenv install flask flask-sqlalchemy flask-marshmallow marshmallow-sqlalchemy flask-migrate psycopg2 flask-sqlalchemy is the sql-alchemy with flask bindings. flask-marshmallow is like the Serializer in Django Rest Framework, marshmallow-sqlalchemy is common binding between marshmallow and sqlalchemy (for things like ModelSerializer in Django Rest Framework).flask-migrate is […]
Step 1: pipenv install –python 3.8 Step 2: pipenv shell Step 3: pipenv install flask flask-sqlalchemy flask-marshmallow marshmallow-sqlalchemy flask-migrate psycopg2 flask-sqlalchemy is the sql-alchemy with flask bindings. flask-marshmallow is like the Serializer in Django Rest Framework, marshmallow-sqlalchemy is common binding between marshmallow and sqlalchemy (for things like ModelSerializer in Django Rest Framework).flask-migrate is migration tool […]