Flask by Example

Learning Path ⋅ Skills: Web Development, Flask Framework

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You’re going to start building a Flask app that calculates word-frequency pairs based on the text from a given URL. This is a full-stack tutorial covering a number of web development techniques. Jump right in and discover the basics of Python web development with the Flask microframework.

Flask by Example

Learning Path ⋅ 8 Resources

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Project Setup

Learn how to create a Python Flask example web application and deploy it using Heroku. You’ll also use Git to track changes to the code, and you’ll configure a deployment workflow with different environments for staging and production.

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Setting up Postgres, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic

This tutorial shows you how to process text and then setup a task queue with Flask. In part two, we'll set up our PostgreSQL database along with SQLAlchemy and Alembic to handle migrations.

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Text Processing with Requests, BeautifulSoup, and NLTK

In part three of this series, we're going scrape the contents of a webpage and then process the text to display word counts.

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Implementing a Redis Task Queue

This part of the tutorial details how to implement a Redis task queue to handle text processing.

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Integrating Flask and Angular

This tutorial details how to utilize to create a polling service with Angular.

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Updating the Staging Environment

In this part of the Flask By Example series, we'll set up Redis on Heroku and look at how to run both a web and worker process on a single dyno

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Updating the UI

In this part of the Flask by Example series, we'll update the user interface to make it more user friendly.

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Custom Angular Directive with D3

In the final part of the Flask by Example series, we'll create a custom Angular Directive to display a frequency distribution chart using JavaScript and D3.

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