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Introduction
1:13Flask is a great Python microframework that can make building web sites and applications much faster. It offers some handy and reliable shortcuts and tools that'll make your web development life a lot easier.
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Hi, I'm Kenneth.
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I know a lot of you are really interested
in doing web development with Python.
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It just so happens that's where most of my
Python experience is,
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so this should be a match made in heaven.
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Before we jump into bigger frameworks like
Django or
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Pyramid, we should get comfortable with
their smaller cousin, Flask.
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Flask is a great little framework for
building simpler web apps and
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prototypes in Python.
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It actually started out as an April Fool's
joke by Armin Ronacher back in 2010.
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People were so in love with the tools that
Armin's code gave them that he had to
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build and release a real framework.
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I doubt he'll ever do another April Fool's
joke.
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Just because it started as a joke doesn't
mean it's not a serious framework.
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Also, I keep using that word, framework.
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A framework is a collection of code that
makes building something easier.
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In this case, Flask is a framework that
makes building web apps simpler.
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Flask is solid and very capable, and has a
very active and
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vibrant community built around it.
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Using Flask, some plugins, and
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of course, standard Python, you should be
able to build anything you want.
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If you're following along locally, you'll
need to install Flask with pip.
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Flask is preinstalled on Workspaces, so
I'll be using that for the entire course.
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