Flask
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Werzeug is a powerful WSGI utility library for Python that provides utilities like request and response objects, URL routing, and file uploads. It is the base for frameworks like Flask. Jinja2 is a template engine for Python that features automatic HTML escaping, template inheritance, and debugging integration. Flask is a web framework that uses Werzeug and Jinja2 and provides features like a development server, template support, and extensions for additional functionality.
Flask
- 1. What is Werzeug? Werzeug is a WSGI utility library for python. It is simple to use yet one of the most advanced and powerful WSGI utility modules. Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI ) is a standard interface through which web server and web application written in Python communicates. A WSGI server receives request from client , passes it to the application and sends the response provided by the application back to the client.
- 2. Features of Werzeug • It includes a powerful and interactive javascript based in- browser debugger. • It has fully features request and response objects. • It has HTTP utilities to handle entity tags cache control headers, HTTP dates , cookie handling, file uploads and a powerful URL routing system. • Provides Unicode support. • It supports Python 2.6 and higher versions. • Werzeug is a base of frameworks like Flask and other frameworks developed for commercial websites and products.
- 3. What is Jinja2? Jinja2 is a fully featured simple to use template engine for python. Wide Range of features of Jinja2 includes: • Sandbox execution mode. • Powerful automatic HTML escaping system for cross site scripting prevention. • Template inheritance which makes it possible to use similar layout for all templates. • Easy to debug with debugging system that integrates compile and runtime errors into standard Python traceback system. • Optional Ahead of time template compilation. • Configurable syntax.
- 5. Interesting Flask Features: • It contains development server and debugger. • It has integrated support for unit testing. • It uses Jinja2 template engine. • RESTful request dispatching. • It includes support for cookies . (client side session) • 100 % WSGI compliant. • Unicode based. • Google App Engine compatible. • Extensions are available to add in ORM, form validation, file uploading and to enhance desired features.
- 6. Create a n isolated development environment -> $ virtualenv flaskapp