Flask Essential Training

Introduction

• Build a full stack app in Python with Flask
• Prerequisites

1. Introduction to Flask

• What is Flask?
• Comparing Flask and Django
• Project step 1: Intro to the Health Tracker Dashboard project

2. Setting Up Your Flask Environment

• Setting up your Flask environment and first application
• Accessing the code repository on GitHub
• Project step 2: Project directory and structure setup

3. Flask Routes and Views

• Routing basics
• View functions
• URL parameters
• Project step 3: Defining routes and creating view functions

4. Jinja Templating in Flask

• Introduction to Jinja templating
• Template inheritance
• Project step 4: Creating templates and implementing inheritance

5. Forms and Form Handling

• Form creation
• Form validation
• Form submission
• Project step 5: Designing the data entry form using Flask-WTF
• Project step 6: Adding validation to the data form

6. Database Operations with Flask-SQLAlchemy

• Setting up SQLAlchemy
• Model creation
• Conceptual overview of create and read
• Create and read operations
• Conceptual overview of update and delete
• Update and delete operations
• Project step 7: Integrating the SQLite database with Flask
• Project step 8: Implementing create and read operations

7. Data Visualization

• Chart basics
• Setting up and seeding the database
• Creating a chart from database data
• Project step 9: Generating charts for visualizing data

8. Conclusion and Deployment

• Deploying to Vercel
• Project step 10: Prepare for deployment
• Project step 11: Deploying the project

Conclusion

• Extending your Flask knowledge