The Ultimate Flask Course: Learn the fundamentals of the Flask framework and its various extensions

Many developers, and even beginners, opt for the Flask framework to build web applications because of its easy-to-understand and well-defined framework. This course will show you how to use the Flask framework’s power and its extensions to build powerful and robust web applications. The course starts by taking you through the process of setting up the Flask environment on your machines. Next, you will understand the Flask basics and templates and learn how to create and connect to a database. In the rest of the course, you will build six interesting Python web applications to dive deep into the concepts of the Flask framework. By building these applications, you will learn how to create and connect the applications to databases, how to use Flask to process incoming request data, how to build an API with Flask, how to handle user sessions, and how to deploy applications to a server. In addition to this, you will also cover popular Flask extensions, such as Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-Bootstrap, Flask-Babel, and learn how these extensions add powerful functionalities to your applications. By the end of this course, you will be well-versed in the Flask framework and extensions and will have gained the skills to build real-world applications. The code files for this course are available at https://github.com/packtpublishing/the-ultimate-flask-course

If you are a beginner or an experienced Python developer, who is looking to learn Flask to develop Python web-based applications, this course is for you. Basic knowledge of Python is needed to get started with this course, and prior knowledge of HTML would be an added advantage.