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Using Flask blueprints to build a bookmarking app, a pastebin and a wiki
For a change, I've been doing all of my new app development using flask, a python web framework built atop the werkzeug WSGI toolkit. Having used django for the last two years it's been fun to do something different, but at the same time stick with python.
In this post I'd like to show a couple of the small projects I've written using flask over the past few weeks.
Integrating the flask microframework with the peewee ORM
I'd like to write a post about a project I've been working on for the past month or so. I've had a great time working on it and am excited to start putting it to use. The project is called flask-peewee -- it is a set of utilities that bridges the python microframework flask and the lightweight ORM peewee. It is packaged as a flask extension and comes with the following batteries included:
- Admin interface a-la django
- RESTful API toolkit a-la tastypie
- Authentication system
How to make a Flask blog in one hour or less
For fun, I thought I'd write a post describing how to build a blog using Flask, a Python web-framework. Building a blog seems like, along with writing a Twitter-clone, a quintessential experience when learning a new web framework. I remember when I was attending a five-day Django tutorial presented by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of my favorite projects we did was creating a blog. After setting up the core of the site, I spent a ton of time adding features and little tweaks here-and-there. My hope is that this post will give you the tools to build a blog, and that you have fun customizing the site and adding cool new features.
In this post we'll cover the basics to get a functional site, but leave lots of room for personalization and improvements so you can make it your own. The actual Python source code for the blog will be a very manageable 200 lines.
Who is this post for?
This post is intended for beginner to intermediate-level Python developers, or experienced developers looking to learn a bit more about Python and Flask. For the mother of all Flask tutorials, check out Miguel Grinberg's 18 part Flask mega-tutorial.
The spec
Here are the features:
- Entries are formatted using markdown.
- Entries support syntax highlighting, optionally using Github-style triple-backticks.
- Automatic video / rich media embedding using OEmbed.
- Very nice full-text search thanks to SQLite's FTS extension.
- Pagination.
- Draft posts.