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A curated list of awesome things related to Flask

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Awesome Flask

A curated list of awesome things related to Flask, based on Awesome Django.

Contents

• Third-Party Extensions
  • Admin
  • APIs
  • Auth
  • Cache
  • Databases
  • Developer Tools
  • Email
  • Forms
  • Full-text Search
  • Security
  • Task Queues
  • Utils
• Resources
  • Official
  • External
  • Community
  • Conferences
    • Conference Videos from PyVideo.org
  • Meetups
  • Podcasts
  • Tutorials
  • Courses
  • Books
  • Videos
• Hosting
  • PaaS
  • IaaS
  • Serverless
• Projects
  • Boilerplate
  • Open Source Projects

Third-Party Extensions

Admin

• Flask-Admin - Functional admin panel that provides a user interface for managing data based on your models

APIs

RESTful API Support

• Flask-RESTful
• Flask-Classful
• Flask-MongoRest
• Eve

RESTful API + Swagger/OpenAPI Documentation Support

• Flask-RESTX
• Connexion
• Flask-Rebar

Swagger/OpenAPI Documentation Support

• Flask-APISpec

Serialization

• Flask-Marshmallow

Auth

Basic (for HTML Endpoints)

• Flask-Login - Account management and authentication
• Flask Principal - Authorization
• Flask-HTTPAuth - Authentication
• Flask-Security - Account management, authentication, authorization
• Flask-User - Account management, authentication, authorization

Curious about the differences differences between Flask-User and Flask-Security? Review the Flask-User FAQ.

JWT-based (for JSON Endpoints)

• Flask-Praetorian - Authentication and authorization for Flask APIs
• Flask-JWT - Basic support for working with JWTs
• Flask-JWT-Extended - Advanced support for working with JWTs
• Flask-JWT-Router - Adds authorized routes to a Flask app

OAuth

• Authlib
• Authomatic
• Flask-Dance

Cache

• Flask-Caching - Caching support

Databases

• Flask-SQLAlchemy - Support for SQLAlchemy, a SQL toolkit and ORM
• Flask-Alembic - Configurable Alembic migration environment around a Flask-SQLAlchemy database for handling database migrations
• Flask-Peewee - Support for Peewee, an ORM and database migration tool
• Flask-Pony - Support for Pony ORM
• Flask-PyMongo - Bridges Flask and PyMongo for working with MongoDB
• Flask-MongoEngine - Bridges Flask and MongoEngine for working with MongoDB

Developer Tools

Debugging

• Flask-DebugToolbar - Port of Django's debug toolbar for Flask
• Flask-Profiler - Endpoint analyzer/profiler

Fixtures

• Flask-Fixtures - create database fixtures form JSON or YAML
• Mixer - Object generation tool

Logging

• Rollbar - Flask error logging with Rollbar

Monitoring

• Airbrake - Airbrake Flask integration
• Elastic APM Agent - Elastic APM Flask integration
• Flask Monitoring Dashboard - Dashboard for automatic monitoring of Flask web-services
• Sentry Python SDK - Sentry SDK Flask integration

Tracing

• Flask-OpenTracing - OpenTracing instrumentation

Testing

• Flask-Testing - Unittest extensions
• Pytest-Flask - Pytest support for testing Flask applications

Email

• Flask-Mail - Provides simple email sending capabilities

Forms

• Flask-WTF - Integrates Flask with WTForms

Full-text Search

• SQLAlchemy-Searchable - Provides full-text search capabilities for SQLAlchemy models

Security

• Flask-Bcrypt - Provides bcrypt hashing utilities
• Flask-CORS - Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) handling
• Flask-SeaSurf - Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) prevention
• Flask-Talisman - HTTPS and security headers

Task Queues

• Celery
• Dramatiq
• Flask-RQ
• Huey

Utils

• Flask-Babel - Support for internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n)
• Flask-File-Upload - Easy file uploads
• Flask-FlatPages - Provides flat static pages based on text files
• Frozen-Flask - Freezes a Flask application into a set of static files
• Flask-GraphQL - GraphQL support
• Flask-Injector - Adds support for dependency injection
• Flask-Limiter - Rate limiting features to Flask routes
• Flask-Moment - Moment.js date and time formatting helpers for Jinja2 templates
• Flask-Paginate - Pagination support
• Flask-Sitemap - Sitemap generation
• Flask-SocketIO - Socket.IO integration

Resources

Official Resources

• Project Website - Official Flask website
• Documentation - Comprehensive documentation for all Flask versions
• Flaskr Tutorial - Build a basic blog application called Flaskr
• Source Code - Hosted on Github

External Resources

• TestDriven - Up-to-date tutorials on Flask
• Miguel Grinberg's Blog - Multiple Flask-specific tutorials
• Full Stack Python's Flask Page - Explanation of Flask philosophy and links to other resources and tutorials
• RealPython - Many high-quality tutorials on Flask
• Patrick Kennedy's Blog - Numerous tutorials on learning Python web application development with Flask
• Nick Janetakis's Blog - Flask Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

Community

• Mailing List ([email protected]) - General discussion of Flask and the Pallets projects
• Discord - Pallets Projects community on Discord (use the #get-help channel for Flask support)
• Twitter - For official announcements on updates, security fixes, etc.
• Stack Overflow - Questions tagged flask
• Reddit - Flask subreddit
• IRC Channel - Chat with other Flask users on IRC channel #pocoo on FreeNode
• Flask Jobs - A job board dedicated to Flask

Conferences

• PyConWeb
• Flask Conf Brazil
• PyCon US
• PyCon Australia
• Euro Python
• Complete listing of all PyCons globally

Conference Videos from PyVideo.org

• Flask Conf Brazil - 2018
• PyCon US - 2019
• EuroPython - 2019
• PyCon Australia - 2019
• Complete listing of videos

Meetups

• Flask - 40+ groups in 20 countries
• Python Web Development - 600+ groups in 81 countries
• Python - 2,400+ groups in 100 countries

Podcasts

• TalkPython - The leading Python podcast with several episodes on Flask
• Podcast Init - A popular Python podcast that features Flask guests on occasion
• Python Bytes - Another Python podcast that discusses Flask from time to time
• Full Stack Python's Best Python Podcasts Page - A list of active Python-specific podcasts

Tutorials

• The Flask Mega-Tutorial
• Intro to Flask, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and JavaScript
• Make a Web App Using Python & Flask!

Courses

• Test-Driven Development with Python, Flask, and Docker
• Authentication with Flask, React, and Docker
• Deploying a Flask and React Microservice to AWS ECS
• Build a SAAS App with Flask
• Full Stack Foundations
• Designing RESTful APIs

Books

• Flask Web Development
• Real Python
• Explore Flask

Videos

• PyVideo
• Practical Flask Web Development Tutorials
• Python Flask Tutorial: Full-Featured Web App
• Discover Flask - Full Stack Web Development with Flask

Hosting

PaaS

(Platforms-as-a-Service)

• Heroku
• PythonAnywhere
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Google App Engine
• Microsoft Azure App Service
• Divio
• Render

IaaS

(Infrastructure-as-a-Service)

• AWS EC2
• Google Compute Engine
• Digital Ocean
• Linode

Serverless

Frameworks:

• Zappa
• Chalice

Compute:

• AWS Lambda
• Google Cloud Functions

Projects

Boilerplates

• cookiecutter-flask
• Cookiecutter Flask Skeleton
• gae-init - For starting new applications on Google App Engine
• Flask-AppBuilder
• flask-base
• Flask-Bootstrap
• uwsgi-nginx-flask-docker - Docker image with uWSGI and Nginx for Flask applications in Python running in a single container
• React-Redux-Flask
• Flask-Scaffold
• Flask-VueJS

Open Source Projects

• ActorCloud
• Airflow
• Busy Beaver
• FlaskBB
• Indico
• PythonBuddy
• Quokka CMS
• Redash
• SkyLines
• Security Monkey
• SecureDrop
• SimpleLogin
• sr.ht (check out Why I chose Flask to build sr.ht's mini-services as well)
• Timesketch

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