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Shalabh Aggarwal has several years of experience in developing business systems and web applications for small-to-medium scale industries. He started his career working on Python, and although he works on multiple technologies, he remains a Python developer at heart. He is passionate about open source technologies and writes highly readable and quality code. He is a major contributor to some very popular open source applications. He has worked with Openlabs Technologies and Consulting (P) Limited as the CTO for a large part of his career. He is also active in voluntary training for engineering students on nonconventional and open source topics.

When not working with full-time assignments, he consults for start-ups on leveraging different technologies. When not writing code, he writes non-technical literature and makes music with his guitar.

I would like to dedicate this book to my late father who will always be there in my thoughts for the love and encouragement he gave me to explore new things in life. I would like to thank my family, my mother and my sister, for putting up with me during my long writing and research sessions. I would also like to thank my friends and colleagues who encouraged me and kept the momentum going. I would like to convey deep gratitude to my mentor, Sharoon Thomas, who introduced me to these technologies and helped me learn a lot. Without the support of all of them, I would have never been able to learn these technologies and complete this book.

Matt Copperwaite graduated in Computer Systems and Networks with a BSc Hons degree from University of Plymouth in 2008 and has since worked in the private and public sectors in the UK. He is currently a Python software developer and DevOps engineer for the UK government, mostly working in Django. However, his first love is Flask, using which he has built several products, all under the GPL license.

Matt is also a trustee of South London Makerspace, a hackerspace-like community in south London. He is a co-host of The Dick Turpin Road Show, a podcast about free and open source software, and the LUG "Master" of the Greater London Linux User Group.

I would like to thank my fiance, Marie, who has put up with my crazy ideas and always makes me laugh, and my parents, who afforded me all the opportunities to get into computing and for their unconditional love.

Christoph Heer is a passionate Python developer based in Germany. He likes to develop web applications and also tools and systems for infrastructure optimization, management, and monitoring. He is proud to be part of the great Python community and wishes to have more time for open source contribution.

Currently, Christoph is studying Computer Science in Karlsruhe in cooperation with his current employer, SAP, and is going to finish his degree in the fall of 2015.

I would like to thank Armin Ronacher for his work for the Python community, especially for Flask and his inspiring API designs and well-written documentation.

Jack Stouffer is a web programmer from the Metro Detroit area. He works for Apollo America. At Apollo, he creates various web applications using Python, Flask, and Backbone.js, which manage everything from KPI tracking and display to controlling manufacturing. He is currently attending college at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

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Preface

Flask is a lightweight web application microframework written in Python. It makes use of the flexibility of Python to provide a relatively simple template for web application development. Flask makes it possible to write simple one-page applications, but it also has the power to scale them and build larger applications without any issues.

Flask has excellent documentation and an active community. It has a number of extensions, each of which have documentation that can be rated from good to excellent. There are a few books also available on Flask; they are great and provide a lot of insight into the framework and its applications. This book tries to take a different approach to explain the Flask framework and multiple aspects of its practical uses and applications as a whole.