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Quickstart with flask

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
@app.route('/home')
def hello_world():
    return 'Hello, World!'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

Every decorator is a link, can use multiple

Templates

Create templates folder where you will store all your html files.

Import render_templates

Create layout.html, here repeated code will be stored

layout.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    {% if title %}
        <title>Flask Blog - {{ title }}</title>
    {% else %}
        <title>Flask Blog</title>
    {% endif %}
</head>
<body>
    {% block content %}{% endblock %}
</body>
</html>

about.html

{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% block content %}
    <h1>bla bla text</h1>
{% endblock content %}

Static

Make a static folder for all the images, css, js files etc

Import url_for

example of url_for usage:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ url_for('static', filename='main.css') }}"

Forms

pip install flask-wtf pip install email-validator

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