Let's see some tips for starting any project with flask python module.
Use these python modules to work with databases: flask-sqlalchemy and flask_marshmallow.
The
Flask-SQLAlchemy is an extension for Flask that adds support for SQLAlchemy to your application.
The
marshmallow is an ORM/ODM/framework-agnostic library for converting complex datatypes, such as objects, to and from native Python datatypes.
Let's install it:
C:\Python373>cd Scripts
C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install flask-sqlalchemy
Collecting flask_sqlalchemy
...
Successfully installed flask-sqlalchemy-2.4.0
C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install flask_marshmallow
Collecting flask_marshmallow
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Successfully installed flask-marshmallow-0.10.1 marshmallow-2.19.5
C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install marshmallow-sqlalchemy
Collecting marshmallow-sqlalchemy
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Successfully installed marshmallow-sqlalchemy-0.17.0
Use these python modules for login and authorization issues: flask-login
The
Flask-Login provides user session management for Flask. It handles the common tasks of logging in, logging out, and remembering your users’ sessions over extended periods of time.
Flask-login doesn't actually have a user backend, it just handles the session machinery to help you to log in and logout users.
Flask-Login can work with user models that are based on any database system with four required items:
is_authenticated,
is_active,
is_anonymous and
get_id.
Let's install it:
C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install flask-login
Collecting flask-login
...
Successfully installed flask-login-0.4.1
This python module named
python-dotenv let us to reads the key-value pair from .env file and adds them to an environment variable.
C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install python-dotenv
Collecting python-dotenv
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Successfully installed python-dotenv-0.10.3
Flask-Login provides a
UserMixin which makes it easy to create a user class, see example class User:
from flask_login import UserMixin
...
class User(UserMixin, db.Model):
Another tip is to use the
get_or_404 and
first_or_404 to avoid show errors on the webpage.
Reduce the passing of multiple variables to render_template, let's see the example:
from flask import render_template
...
return render_template('index.html', fn=name.first, ln=name.last, day=student.day,
.... ')
This can de easy fix with this code to send value I want to pass:
context = {
'fn': name.first,
'ln': name.last,
'day': student.day,
...
}
return render_template('index.html', **context)
Use query to solve complex tasks.
Let's see a simple example of delete from a Student database class:
...
class Student(db.Model):
id=db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
...
country=db.Column(db.String(2))
...
Let's delete this with a query and return the number of deleted by
delete_count:
del_ids= db.session.query(Student.id).filter(Student.country=='Ro')
delete_count=db.session.query(Student).filter(Student.id.in_(del_ids.subquery())).delete(synchronize_session=False)
I used two files in the main project named
.env and
.flaskenv:
The file
.env comes with:
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI=sqlite:///db.sqlite3
SECRET_KEY = abcdef
The file
.flaskenv has these lines of source code:
FLASK_ENV = development
FLASK_APP = my_flask_app
This can be used into a new file named
settings.py:
import os
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.environ.get('SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI')
SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')
SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS = False
Using this the main flask application will start like this:
from flask import Flask
def create_my_app(config_file='settings.py'):
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_pyfile(config_file)
return app
There are plenty of tips and tricks that can be found based on the project in the bottle.
These are the most used.
