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Bringing AJAX to Flask – Part 1

Flask is a micro web framework which is really fun to use. With the following snippet You have a complete web app working within seconds.

from flask import Flask # 1
 
app = Flask(__name__)   # 2

@app.route('/')         # 3
def hello_world():
    return 'Hello World!'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()           #4

All this snippet does is

  1. Importing the Flask module,
  2. Creating the app,
  3. Defining an so called endpoint and finally
  4. Running the web app in a container.

Flask brings its own WSGI server called “werkzeug”. Please use it just for development purposes. It is not suitable for live applications. Continue reading “Bringing AJAX to Flask – Part 1”