TalkPython Podcast Episode #264: 10 tips every Flask developer should know

Podcast

The 10 tips:

• No need to use jsonify anymore
• Do not store sensitive information in the user session
• Using a .env file for secrets - python-dotenv
• Windows laptops and Chromebooks are both great Python/Flask development machines with their Linux emulation
• Differences between App context and Request context
• Flask outside of a web server (Celery workers, cron jobs, etc.)
• Use https://github.com/TypeError/secure.py
• Use httpie instead of curl to send requests to your app
• Flask for asyncio: Quart
• Greenlet frameworks (gevent, eventlet) and Flask
• Blueprints!