Creating a basic product model

In this recipe, we will create an application that will help us to store products to be displayed on the catalog section of a website. It should be possible to add products to the catalog, and then delete as and when required. As we saw in previous chapters, this is possible to do using non-persistent storage as well. Here, however, we will store data in a database to have persistent storage.

How to do it...

The new directory layout would appear as follows:

flask_catalog/ 
    - run.py
    my_app/ 
        - __init__.py 
        catalog/ 
            - __init__.py 
            - views.py 
            - models.py 

First of all, start with modifying the application configuration file, that is, flask_catalog...