Welcome
because sometimes a pocket knife is not enough
Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. And before you ask: It's BSD licensed!
Latest Version: 0.12
Flask is Fun
from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/") def hello(): return "Hello World!" if __name__ == "__main__": app.run()
And Easy to Setup
$ pip install Flask $ python hello.py * Running on http://localhost:5000/
Interested?
- Download latest release (0.12)
- Read the documentation or download as PDF
- Join the mailinglist
- Fork it on github
- Add issues and feature requests
What’s in the Box?
- built-in development server and debugger
- integrated unit testing support
- RESTful request dispatching
- uses Jinja2 templating
- support for secure cookies (client side sessions)
- 100% WSGI 1.0 compliant
- Unicode based
- extensively documented
What do Flask Apps look like?
If you are looking for some example code of applications written with Flask, have a look at the sources of the examples on github:
- flaskr — a microblog
- minitwit — a twitter clone
- this website — static pages + mailinglist archives
Contribute
Found a bug? Have a good idea for improving Flask? Head over to
Flask's github page and
create a new ticket or fork. If you just want to chat with fellow
developers, visit the IRC
channel or join the mailinglist. You can also directly add issues and feature
requests to the
issue tracker.