Presentation for the PyHouston meetup over Flask - a micro-development framework for web development

1. A Python Micro-framework For Web Development http://flask.pocoo.org Glen Zangirolami Blog: http://theglenbot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/glenbot

4. A solid foundation for web applications

6. Integrated unittesting support

7. Jinja 2 template engine

8. 100% WSGI Compatible

9. Unicode Based

10. Fantastic documentation and community

12. A personal blog

13. Site that requires forms and registration

14. Software administration panels

15. Anything you can think of. The possibilities are endless!

17. It's super simple (see 4 th bullet)

18. Hosting Support

19. May require some custom code (that's not so bad right? ;))

21. Customizable

22. Strong Community

23. Built upon proven and stable code

24. Early adopters can lay the ground work for the future of flask

26. It wouldn't be a demo without hello world! from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/") def hello(): return "Hello World!" if __name__ == "__main__": app.run() It's that simple!

28. Minitwit – A twitter clone

29. flask.pocoo.org – Yes, the website is running flask.

30. http://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/tree/master/examples/

32. Mailing List - http://flask.pocoo.org/mailinglist/

33. IRC – irc.freenode.net - #pocoo

34. Demo then questions Resources: http://flask.pocoo.org/ Slides: http://slideshare.net/glenbot Thanks again! Glen Zangirolami http://theglenbot.com @glenbot on twitter