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// Q & A // |
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~ If I wanna try out flask at an upcoming hackathon, whats the best resource to get started? |
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I've always found the documentation useful which you can find here: |
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http://flask.pocoo.org/ |
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And also these video tutorials: |
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~ How would I make a flask rest api? |
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Take a look at this useful tutorial: |
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http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/designing-a-restful-api-with-python-and-flask |
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~ Whats the best db to integrate with flask? |
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The most popular ORM for non-Django web applications is SQLAlchemy by far, |
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but there are plenty of other options from DynamoDB and MongoDB to |
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simple local persistence like LevelDB or plain SQLite. |
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~ Is flask the same thing as a django? Difference? |
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With Flask, you will explicitly write your own route functions, |
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make your routes render templates, etc. all using Python functions |
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you're already familiar with. There is little "magic". You can see |
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exactly how everything is happening and understand why it is happening. |
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Flask documentation is also quite nice and concise so you can read it |
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and learn Flask in a few hours, spend several evenings learning to make |
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a full application, and then move on to Django. The time investment is small, |
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it will give you great preparation for Django, and you'll have learned |
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about a great micro-framework. I sometimes prototype projects in Flask |
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before building them in Django. |
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Django, while more fully featured, has definite structure and convention |
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so it can be a little more mysterious for a beginner to figure out how |
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everything fits together. If you're new to web development, |
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you might have some confusion about whether you're doing something because |
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its a web development convention or whether you're doing it because its |
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part of the Django conventions/organization. |
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If you can spend a few days or a week playing with Flask before moving on |
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to learning Django (your original goal) I think it is well worth the time. |
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Both are great frameworks. Welcome to the world of Web Development. |
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