Putilin Alexander - Mastering Flask

Jack Stouffer is a programmer who has several years of experience in designing web applications. He switched to Flask two years ago for all his projects. He currently works for Apollo America in Auburn Hills, Michigan and writes internal business tools and software using Python, Flask, and JavaScript. Jack is a believer and supporter of open source technology. When he released his Flask examples with the recommended best practices on GitHub, it became one of the most popular Flask repositories on the site. Jack has also worked as a reviewer for Flask Framework Cookbook, Packt Publishing .

Firstly, I would like to thank my two managers at Apollo America, Peter Stouffer and Louise Laing, for giving me a very flexible schedule to write this book, without which I would have never been able to write it in a reasonable amount of time. Secondly, I would like to thank Riddhi Tuljapurkar, who was my content editor and my contact at Packt Publishing for this book, for being flexible when it came to chapter deadlines as well as for giving me good feedback on the chapters. I would also like to thank Llewellyn Rozario for giving me the opportunity to write this book in the first place. Finally, I would like to thank the five technical reviewers, Ayun Park, Ben Chaimberg, Nidal Alhariri, Rotem Yaari, and Pedro Baumann, for investing their time and energy to make the final product a whole lot better than the initial drafts.

Nidal Alhariri is an entrepreneur, a full-stack computer programmer, and a technology consultant. He is the creator of Enferno Framework (a Python web framework based on Flask).

He is also the founder and CTO of Level 09 Studios, a web and software development agency based in Dubai and Berlin, which serves clients from different backgrounds, such as international organizations, hotels, luxury real estate, satellite TV, publishing, and many more.

He has been the driving force behind a lot of software applications and web systems for nearly 12 years now and has an excellent record of delivering projects on time and on budget. He has a roster of delighted clients and deep ties to the development community.

Pedro Alejandro Baumann is a cofounder of Athelas Per, psychotherapist, sysAdmin, and self-taught programmer. He works as a backend developer and sysAdmin for Athelas. He also loves to learn about new technologies, but especially loves to work with Python and dabbles with a few open source projects in his spare time (he mostly adds ZURB foundation to every Flask project that might require it!). He is constantly juggling projects of various kinds. Currently, he is developing a project to inform parents and educators about the reality of video gaming and also writing for a Peruvian coding blog (De Cdigo y Algo ms).

I would like to thank my wife, Lucia, who always encouraged me to become a programmer and to make a living out of it. I would also like to thank my co-workers who let me experiment with any technology that I feel like working on at that time.

Ben Chaimberg is a student at the University of Chicago. He was introduced to programming at a young age by his father and hasn't stopped coding since. He is currently working on a full-stack web application in Flask while pursuing his schooling in mathematics.

I would like to thank my parents for their constant support and commitment, Max for his camaraderie and patience, and Mrs. Kono for her inspiration and concern.

Ayun Park is a 19-year-old software engineer from South Korea. He has been programming in Python since 2011. He can be found at http://parkayun.kr.

Rotem Yaari is a software engineer from Israel who's been developing software in Python since 2001. He is actively involved in several open source Python projects, such as the Slash testing framework, the Weber Flask webapp framework, Flask-Loopback, and others.

For the past 8 years, Rotem has been working on backend infrastructure development for data storage start-ups. He specializes in complex software integrations using web services and in high availability infrastructure.

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Preface

Flask is a web framework for Python that is specifically designed to provide the minimum amount of functionality that is needed to create web apps. Unlike other web frameworks, especially those in other languages, Flask does not have an entire ecosystem of libraries bundled with it for things such as database querying or form handling. Flask instead prefers to be an implementation agnostic.