Integrating Flask with Other Tools and Frameworks

Flask’s flexibility, seamlessness, and pluggability provide ease for building various applications, from simple form-based counseling systems to Docker-based applications. Chapters 1 to 10 have showcased its minimalistic but powerful framework with several extension modules and libraries providing support, fast solutions, and clean coding for web and API applications.

Although Flask is not favored to handle large enterprise solutions like Django can, it can serve as a middleware or component to many enterprise-grade systems and can even be a good solution for building microservices. The superb flexibility of Flask makes it an ideal inclusion to the recipes of many software infrastructures of many business processes.

To give a clear picture as to where to place Flask in the list of popular Python frameworks, the goal of this last chapter is to highlight the feasibility of having a backend Flask implementation for mobile...