Flask 1.0 Released

Flask has a stigma for not being that good when building larger apps, but honestly Flask scales really well for that type of use case (coming from a development &#x2F; maintenance point of view).<p>I have some pretty large Flask apps with dozens of top level dependencies and models spanning across many thousands of lines of code. Even if I don&#x27;t touch the code base for a few months, it&#x27;s easy to jump back into it.<p>I&#x27;m also a huge fan of Rails, but truthfully I find Flask apps to be easier to reason about and hack on once they grow to a decent size, simply because Blueprints make it really straight forward and intuitive to modularize your application without increasing the complexity of everything by using micro-services.<p>If anyone wants to jump into Flask and start building real world apps, you may want to check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buildasaasappwithflask.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;buildasaasappwithflask.com&#x2F;</a>. It&#x27;s a full blown course where we build a SAAS application using Flask and Docker. I recently added a free RESTful API bonus section to the course and now that Flask 1.0 out, I&#x27;ll be adding another free update which will cover updating all of the packages in the main app. Just going to wait for the dust to settle on the 1.0 release first.

I understand that Flask has become popular because it is easy to learn, but my experience is that as your knowledge progresses it just keeps getting in your way. I particularly dislike some design choices which look like afterthought hacks, such as global variables for current request and using abort() functions instead of raising exceptions directly.<p>EDIT: To avoid hollow naysaying, here are some alternatives to Flask I find much better designed:<p><pre><code> - Tornado Web Framework [0] - Falcon [1] </code></pre> [0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tornadoweb.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;webframework.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tornadoweb.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;webframework.html</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;falconframework.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;falconframework.org&#x2F;</a>

Never even realised it wasn&#x27;t 1.0, maybe I should pay attention to version numbers. Changelog looks good!<p>I&#x27;ve never understood logging in Flask or how to do it in a sane way for a simple app while using uWSGI, so I&#x27;m glad that has some improvements. I don&#x27;t remember my exact issues but I couldn&#x27;t get configuration from a text file to work and for some reason configuring it in-code wouldn&#x27;t work either. I don&#x27;t understand python&#x27;s logger in general so I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s part of the problem. The changelog is vague on details, but hopefully whatever was modified really does make things simpler and solves my issues for me.

Flask is an interesting project. Created by a true Python master only to be nearly abandoned, and yet it remained so popular it was later revived by a new group without a major fork. How often does THAT happen?<p>The post describes it as &quot;stable for a long time&quot; :)

Love Flask. It is my favorite back-end framework and has fit all of my needs. Getting a server up and running with Flask is incredibly simple and if anybody hasn&#x27;t played with it yet, I highly recommend it.

This is epic. In theory now from V1 onwards it should be easier to convince people at big serious corps to use Flask as it cuts down a lot of Django bloat especially for smaller applications, microservices and other nimble backends.

Love Flask in theory. My biggest complaint was trying to do user management with it. Flask-Security was good, but the developer skipped town a few years ago. Did they come back? :D<p>Basically you are left to your own devices, which sounds great, but user+auth is pretty fundamental to be left to a random absentee third-party in my opinion.

Awesome news! I am sad to see you leave Zero Versioning though. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0ver.org&#x2F;#notable-zerover-projects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0ver.org&#x2F;#notable-zerover-projects</a>

We (a big newspaper - 5k-10k visitors at any time) run on Flask. Quite a big application.<p>It was the biggest reason why I choose this job, as many python shops seem to run Django which I&#x27;m not a fan of.

Flash was the first backend framework I really understood. It was very easy to get started with. I no longer use it but it made it so easy to learn web development.

Is there a good &quot;zero config&quot; application server for Flask that is considered standard now? I absolutely loved building an app with Flask but I rememeber deployment being a pain.

I don&#x27;t understand why use Flask instead of Django, I usually work with a lot of crud systems, I think that Django is the best option to do it. I think that Django is better because it has an autogenerated admin site and this is really helpful when you work with the customers, they can easily populate the database while you work in the logic

Flask is an absolutely amazing experience for small-mid sized projects. You have to hand roll and pull in things for bigger projects, but I think it&#x27;s great when you want &quot;just what I need and nothing extra&quot;.<p>I&#x27;d be curious to see some sort of flask &quot;bundles&quot; that would allow it to make more sense for large-scale projects.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hack4impact&#x2F;flask-base" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hack4impact&#x2F;flask-base</a> is an incredible boilerplate for Flask, I use it for every projects ! Lots of basic web stuff included, user management, redis queue for asynchronous tasks etc..

I can&#x27;t speak to large apps, but it sure is nice for rapid prototypes. I wanted to play with the Twilio API the other day, and it make things really easy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;e-ht&#x2F;89memes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;e-ht&#x2F;89memes</a>

This[0] is a pretty good starting point. The organisation of modules as well as the swagger documentation provides a pretty good insight about what can be done in flask. Out of curiosity, is it possible to change a few tags in the swagger doc that one gets to see in the browser? I would like to take a few tags out. I looked it up for spring and the process was pretty daunting.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;michal.karzynski.pl&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;19&#x2F;building-beautiful-restful-apis-using-flask-swagger-ui-flask-restplus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;michal.karzynski.pl&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;19&#x2F;building-beautifu...</a>

Awesome news. Time to update my project templates.

wow, lot of Flask haters here.<p>I personally love it and have used it for a ton of smaller projects. For example, I just deployed this a couple days ago: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dadjoke.info" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dadjoke.info</a>

People always talk about scaling large apps with Flask or Django, but I think that misses the point. If your app gets large enough it will inevitably start to go its own way. The point of these libraries is that lets you do a hell of a lot really quickly.<p>I&#x27;m someone who quit web programming in around 2008 while IE6 was still a thing. I used to write PHP without a framework. As someone just getting back into it, Django and Flask or downright magical. I can do so much so quickly that would have taken days to do before. With Flask-RESTful you can turn some code into a microservice in about 10 minutes.<p>For me, this is what makes these libraries great, not that they will fit every need of every app ever.