Full Stack Web Development with Flask

Course details

Looking to build your own personal or professional web application? In this course, join Christian Hur as he steps through how to build dynamic web apps using Python and Flask, the popular Python web framework. After demonstrating how to set up your environment, Christian shows how to create a Flask project, work with templates, and set up and configure a database system for your app—in this case, Flask-MongoEngine—to help store and track data. Plus, see how to work with web forms; integrate Flask-Security, which allows you to add common security mechanisms; and create and test REST APIs using Postman.

Learning objectives
Creating and running a simple Flask app
Creating a Flask project
Working with templates
Setting up and connecting to a database
Working with Flask-Security
Creating and testing REST APIs with Postman

Concepts

1. Setup

01 - Setting up the virtual environment and framework
02 - Installing Python and Flask
03 - Configuring Flask
04 - Creating and running a simple Flask application

2. Creating a Flask Project

05 - Creating the enrollment application
06 - Running and configuring the development server
07 - Creating the homepage
08 - Creating navigation links and route patterns

3. Working with Templates

09 - Creating the base template
10 - Creating child templates
11 - Passing data to the view
12 - Accessing data via request and response objects
13 - URL variables
14 - Working with the GET method
15 - Working with the POST method
16 - Sending a JSON response

4. Working with Databases

17 - Installing database systems
18 - Setting up the database
19 - Connecting to the database
20 - Creating documents and data
21 - Creating the data models

5. Working with Web Forms and Flask-Security

22 - Installation and configuration
23 - Creating the login and registration pages
24 - Updating the login route and login template
25 - Flashing messages
26 - Displaying form validation error messages
27 - Processing form data and updating the database
28 - Updating login route to interact with database
29 - Updating registration route to interact with database
30 - Creating the courses page
31 - Creating the enrollment page
32 - Updating the enrollment template
33 - Creating the MongoDB aggregation pipeline
34 - Adding the aggregation pipeline to application
35 - Creating sessions and authentication
36 - Setting up the session for logout and enrollment routes
37 - Updating the navigation and testing the session
38 - Adding the welcome message to layout

6. Creating and Testing REST APIs Using Postman

39 - Installing Postman and the Flask-RESTPlus APIs extension
40 - Fetching data using GET
41 - Inserting data using POST
42 - Updating data using PUT
43 - Deleting data using DELETE

Full Stack Web Development with Flask

Authors

Christian Hur