Flask by example unleash the full potential of the Flask web framework by creating simple yet powerful web applications
Dynamically display data to your viewers, based on their requests Store user and static data in SQL and NoSQL databases and use this data to power your web applications Create a good user experience by combining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Harness the convenience of freely available APIs, including Op...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham, UK
Packt Publishing
2016
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| Series: | Community experience distilled
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Using the user's city search in our Python codeChecking our new functionality; Handling duplicate city names; Currency; Getting an API key for the Open Exchange Rates API; Using the Open Exchange Rates API; Using our currency function; Displaying the currency data in our template; Adding inputs for the user to select currency; Creating an HTML select drop-down element; Adding all the currencies to the select input; Displaying the selected currency in the drop-down input; Summary; Chapter 5: Improving the User Experience of Our Headlines Project; Adding cookies to our Headlines application
- Using cookies with FlaskSetting cookies in Flask; Retrieving cookies in Flask; Adding CSS to our Headlines application; External, internal, and inline CSS; Adding our first CSS; Adding padding to our CSS; Adding more styles to our CSS; Adding the div tags to the template file; Styling our inputs; Summary; Chapter 6: Building an Interactive Crime Map; Setting up a new Git repository; Understanding relational databases; Installing and configuring MySQL on our VPS; Installing MySQL on our VPS; Installing Python drivers for MySQL; Creating our Crime Map database in MySQL
- Chapter 4: User Input for Our Headlines ProjectGetting user input using HTTP GET; Getting user input using HTTP POST; Creating a branch in Git; Adding POST routes in Flask; Making our HTML form use POST; Reverting our Git repository; Adding weather and currency data; Introducing the OpenWeatherMap API; Signing up with OpenWeatherMap; Retrieving your OpenWeatherMap API key; Parsing JSON with Python; Introducing JSON; Retrieving and parsing JSON in Python; Using our weather code; Displaying the weather data; Allowing the user to customize the city; Adding another search box to our template
- Setting up our project and a Git repositoryCreating a new Flask application; Introduction to RSS and RSS feeds; Using RSS from Python; URL routing in Flask; Publishing our Headlines application; Summary; Chapter 3: Using Templates in Our Headlines Project; Introducing Jinja; Basic use of Jinja templates; Rendering a basic template; Passing dynamic data to our template; Displaying dynamic data in our template; Advanced use of Jinja templates; Using Jinja objects; Adding looping logic to our template; Adding hyperlinks to our template; Pushing our code to the server; Summary
- Cover ; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgements; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Hello, World!; Introducing Flask; Creating our development environment; Installing pip; Installing Flask; Writing ""Hello, World!""; Writing the code; Running the code; Deploying our application to production; Setting up a Virtual Private Server; Configuring our server; Installing and using Git; Serving our Flask app with WSGI; Configuring Apache to serve our Flask application; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Started with Our Headlines Project