Summary

Flexibility, adaptability, extensibility, and maintainability are the best adjectives that fully describe Flask as a Python framework.

Previous chapters have proven Flask to be a simple, minimalist, and Pythonic framework that can build API and web applications with fewer configurations and setups. Its vast support helps us build applications that manage workflows and perform scientific calculations and visualization using plots, graphs, and charts. Although a WSGI application at the core, it can implement asynchronous API and view functions with async services and repository transactions.

Flask has Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-WTF, Flask-Session, Flask-CORS, and Flask-Login that can lessen the cost and time of development. Other than that, stable and up-to-date extensions are available to help a Flask application secure its internals, run on an HTTPS platform, and protect its form handling from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) problems. On the other hand, Flask can use SQLAlchemy...