Flask introduced the concept of pluggable views in version 0.7; this added a lot of flexibility to the existing implementation. We can write views in the form of classes; these views can be written in a generic fashion and allow for an easy and understandable inheritance. In this recipe, we will understand how to create such class-based views.
Writing class-based views
Getting ready
Refer to the last recipe, Writing function-based views and URL routes, to see the basic function-based views first.
How to do it...
Flask provides a class named View, which can be inherited...
