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Flask By Example
Flask By Example

Flask By Example: Unleash the full potential of the Flask web framework by creating simple yet powerful web applications

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Flask By Example

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Our Headlines Project

Now that our Hello World application is up and running, we have all the groundwork in place to create a more useful application. Over the next few chapters, we'll create a Headlines application that displays up-to-date news headlines, weather information, and currency exchange rates to our users.

In this chapter, we'll introduce RSS feeds and show how to use them to automatically retrieve recent news articles from specific publications. In the next chapter, we'll discuss how to use templates to display headlines and summaries of the retrieved articles to our users. Chapter 4, User Input for Our Headlines Page Project, will show you how to get input from users so that they can customize their experience and will also look at how to add weather and currency data to our application. We'll finish off the project in Chapter 5, Improving the User Experience of Our Headlines Project, by adding some CSS styles and...

Setting up our project and a Git repository

We could simply edit our Hello World application to add the desired functionality, but it's cleaner to start a new project. We'll create a new Git repository, a new Python file, a new .wsgi file, and a new Apache configuration file. We'll do this for each of the projects in the book, which means that all three of the projects as well as the original Hello World application will be accessible from our web server.

Setting up is very similar to what we did for our Hello World application in Chapter 1, Hello, World! but we'll briefly go through the steps again as we don't have to repeat a lot of the configuration and installation, as follows:

  1. Log in to your GitHub or BitBucket account and create a new repository called headlines. Take note of the URL you're given for this blank repository.
  2. On your local machine, create a new directory called headlines in your home directory or wherever you put the firstapp directory.
  3. Create...

Creating a new Flask application

To begin with, we'll create the skeleton of our new Flask application, which is pretty much the same as our Hello World application. Open headlines.py in your editor and write the following code:

from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def get_news():
  return "no news is good news"

if __name__ == '__main__':
  app.run(port=5000, debug=True)

This works exactly as before. You can run it in your terminal with python headlines.py. Open a browser and navigate to localhost:5000 to see the no news is good news string displayed. However, although the old adage may be true, it's bad news that our app does not do anything more useful than this. Let's make it display actual news to our users.

Introduction to RSS and RSS feeds

RSS is an old but still widely used technology to manage content feeds. It's been around for such a long time that there's some debate as to what the letters RSS actually stand for, with some saying Really Simple Syndication and others Rich Site Summary. It's a bit of a moot point as everyone just calls it RSS.

RSS presents content in an ordered and structured format using XML. It has several uses, with one of the more common uses being for people to consume news articles. On news websites, news is usually laid out similarly to a print newspaper with more important articles being given more space and also staying on the page for longer. This means that frequent visitors to the page will see some content repeatedly and have to look out for new content. On the other hand, some web pages are updated only very infrequently, such as some authors' blogs. Users have to keep on checking these pages to see whether they are updated, even when they...

Summary

That's it for this chapter. The major takeaways of this chapter were taking a look at how routing, both static and dynamic, are handled in Flask. You also learned a fairly messy way of formatting data using HTML and returning this to the user.

In the next chapter, we'll take a look at cleaner ways to separate our HTML code from our Python code using Jinja templates. We'll also have our app display more than a single news story.

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  • The most up-to-date book on Flask on the market
  • Create your own world-class applications and master the art of Flask by unravelling its enigma through this journey
  • This step-by-step tutorial is packed with examples on blending different technologies with Flask to get you up and running

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This book will take you on a journey from learning about web development using Flask to building fully functional web applications. In the first major project, we develop a dynamic Headlines application that displays the latest news headlines along with up-to-date currency and weather information. In project two, we build a Crime Map application that is backed by a MySQL database, allowing users to submit information on and the location of crimes in order to plot danger zones and other crime trends within an area. In the final project, we combine Flask with more modern technologies, such as Twitter's Bootstrap and the NoSQL database MongoDB, to create a Waiter Caller application that allows restaurant patrons to easily call a waiter to their table. This pragmatic tutorial will keep you engaged as you learn the crux of Flask by working on challenging real-world applications.

Who is this book for?

Have you looked at PHP and hated the clunky bloated syntax? Or looked at .Net and wished it was more open and flexible? Maybe you’ve tried your hand at GUI libraries in Python and found them hard to use? If your answer to any one of these questions is a yes, then this is just the book for you. It is also intended for people who know the basics of Python and want to learn how to use it to build powerful solutions with a web front-end.

What you will learn

  • * Build three web applications from the ground up using the powerful Python micro
  • framework, Flask.
  • * Dynamically display data to your viewers, based on their requests
  • * Store user and static data in SQL and NoSQL databases and use this data to power
  • your web applications
  • * Create a good user experience by combining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • * Harness the convenience of freely available APIs, including OpenWeatherMap, Open
  • Exchange Rates, and bitly
  • * Extend your applications to build advanced functionality, such as a user account
  • control system using Flask-Login
  • * Learn about web application security and defend against common attacks, such as
  • SQL injection and XSS
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Table of Contents

13 Chapters
1. Hello, World! Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Getting Started with Our Headlines Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Using Templates in Our Headlines Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. User Input for Our Headlines Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Improving the User Experience of Our Headlines Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Building an Interactive Crime Map Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Adding Google Maps to Our Crime Map Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Validating User Input in Our Crime Map Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Building a Waiter Caller App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Template Inheritance and WTForms in Waiter Caller Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Using MongoDB with Our Waiter Caller Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A. A Sneak Peek into the Future Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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"While starting to learn a new framework for web development, it is really important to learn basics of the web development, framework chosen and language in which it is written.""Flask by Example" is one such book where you will start as a novice into flask development and learn step by step through live projects mentioned in book. Starting from first chapter, it will give you basic ideas about how web development works, what are web servers, creating backend functionality using python, creating templates using Jinja 2.0, integrating html, jquery and bootstrap into web application, integrating with MySQL database and MongoDB database, etc. and it will take you to the advanced web development like making code live on aws, using git for source code maintenance, making site live on apache server, etc. Everyone who wants to learn web development into python flask framework, whether you are experienced web developer into some other language or framework OR you are a beginner, will find this book useful to learn.NOTE: I have been a part of this book as technical reviewer, and this review is based on my experience about the content of the book and way it is presented to the readers
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So far (into chapter 3), this book does a good job getting up and running learning Flask. The book assumes some knowledge of Linux, for example in my Ubuntu box I wasn't in the right context when installing Python, and Flask and it caused my web server not to run properly.
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The book explains Flask and a couple of its extensions. The explanation is detailed and clear, and contents covered in this book are useful for starting with building a web site. I personally felt that I learned a lot from it and have mastered the basics to build a Flask website.I really like the three projects used in the book. They really demonstrate lots of common problems and useful tools/ways to tackle them.The only reason I take one star off is because I saw a few typos in the book, both in the text and code. As a book introducing coding, the typo in the code or the text explaining the code will be misleading and takes lots of time for the readers to figure out the error.
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Am only at page 24 of the book and the code there does not work. It only gives list index out of range error around first_article = feed['entries'][0]. How can this be solved?
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First I would like to say for the most up to date book on the market I expected it to be Python 3. I am almost halfway through and have had to adjust a couple of things so far to work with Python3. But so far it's been simple things like changing imported modules. The book is well written and really does a great job of explaining things simply even at the expense of going back and refactoring code to make it more concise. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn flask. Only knock so far is not being in python3.
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