Flask Web Development: Developing Web Applications with Python

Great Book!!!
This is one of the best technical books I have read. I particularly like the use of the git client to align the code for proper execution after the author reaches certain milestones. Of course, when the code fails we often ask, “what did I miss?”. The git client takes away a lot of the guess work associated with the structure of a project. It also allows you to do a quick refresher of the material after you read it, and the freedom to choose between seeing the project from a birds eye view, or to drill down and write the code directly, if that feels more useful to you.It is important to see the code received by the client web page, as a result of what the server is doing is doing, when translating python code to HTML and javascript. It’s easy enough for me to expose the language on the browser, and maybe the author could emphasize how important this is to “round out” the learning, but I believe this could be expected; understanding that the typical student will be at the next level when researching server side technologies.There is an online errata for the book, although the errors found during the reading were small enough and can be corrected by the student. This does not veer my interest away, as troubleshooting code should also developed as an important ability for the student. When I do find a serious error in a book, one that goes beyond being counter-intuitive, I expect the next paragraph to say that this error was expected, and to show me how to fix it. This is great in a book that attempts to save time on typical errors that are made, particularly those errors that could be difficult to solve. It’s only when I don’t find an error explanation and it takes me a considerable time to troubleshoot, or when I get stuck, that I get concerned about a reading. But this has not been my experience with this book. Errors are minimal, simple, and easy to manage and learn from.This book has exceded by expectations and has made me a fan of the author. I will surely follow him on other writings and projects related to web technologies.

Fast delivery. Good book.
I bought this by mistake. But still like it. I thought it was update on the author’s excellent Flask Megatutorial. But it is a little older. But still excellent.

I Knew Python, but Not Flask. This Book Was Exactly What I Was Looking For
I was tasked with rebuilding and modernizing an ancient publishing CMS. I have over 10 years experience with Python, HTML, Javascript, and CSS, but I knew very little about Flask or server-side Python programming. This book was an excellent and invaluable resource in bridging that knowledge gap.This book is structured as if the author was walking you, step by step, through the process of creating a blogging/social media app, a similar, though not identical, app to what I was developing. It provided just the information I needed when I needed it. The examples were robust enough that I was able to understand the reasoning behind them, and adapt them to my own needs.The linked github repository was also very helpful in clarifying the rare example that needed more information. This was particularly helpful for chapter 7, where the author talks about structuring a more complex application with blueprints and application factories.If I have one minor quibble, its that the requirements.txt file in the github is assumes an older version of Python 3. So it installs older versions of the libraries that don’t work with the current version of python (At time of writing 3.10.x ). Kinda annoying to deal with if you want to see the included code run. Can’t really hold this against the author, as everything was up-to-date when the book was written. I haven’t noticed any interface changes in the newer versions of the libraries. As far as I can tell the code all still works as written.

If you are like me and you don’t have prior web-development experience, this book is for you. Everything is explained in detail and in a simple language. Absolutely recommend it.

Si vous cherchez un livre traitant de Flask alors c’est celui-ci qu’il vous faut. C’est un très bon complément au blog de l’auteur Miguel Grinberg. Super.