Full-Stack Web Development with Flask
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Full-Stack Web Development with Flask

Packt
Updated Oct 12, 2024

What you'll learn

  • Use the template system to build elegant templates.  
  • Create impressive web forms with the Flask-WTF extension.  
  • Work with effective NoSQL database systems such as FlaskSQLAlchemy and Flask-MongoEngine.  
  • Add support for quickly building REST APIs using Flask-RESTPlus.  
  • Locally check requests and responses during web API development using Postman.  
  • Install and configure Flask-Security to add basic security and authentication features.   
Course Description

In this course, we will cover everything you need to know to build a dynamic web application using the Python and Flask frameworks for seamless full-stack web development. You'll dive into the Flask environment and get to know its directory structure, template, and routing systems. Then you'll learn to connect to databases such as Flask-SQLAlchemy and Flask-MongoEngine to help store and track data.  

We will show you how to build styled websites for an amazing UI experience using this popular front-end tool, how to get to grips with The Flask-RESTPlus extension, and how to call the API from JavaScript and use Postman to test the API. You'll learn to integrate Flask-Security, which allows you to add common security mechanisms. The course will also teach you options for deploying your Flask application.  

Finally, you'll be able to build amazing personal or effective business websites while writing your code in Python's Flask framework and its popular front-end framework. The course will develop your experience in Flask and when you've completed it you will be able to build your own complex web applications.  


Target Audience 

This course is aimed at Python developers who want to get into full-stack web development with Flask, a micro-framework for web development using Python.   Working knowledge of Python is assumed.   


Business Outcomes 

  • Create a data-driven web application in Flask.  

  • Learn to work with NoSQL databases such as Flask-SQLAlchemy and SQL-MongoEngine.  

  • Integrate important security and authentication features using Flask-Security.