Flask: Webapps built with Python

A collection of tutorials curated by Phill Conrad

Topics

• Bower—A general Package Manger for web app components
• Browserify—Package up npm modules into a js file you can include on client side web page
• canvas element—HTML5 element for in-browser graphics
• Corgis—A Collection of datasets
• Corgis: (1) Reading the JSON—Reading the JSON for a Corgis dataset
• Documentation—Tools for generating API documentation (similar to javadoc)
• End-to-End Testing—Testing webapps end-to-end, with Selenium, for example
• Flask—Making Python-based web apps with Flask
• Github API—Accessing github resources from webapps
• Google Calendar—Tips for embedding and working with Google Calendar
• Google Maps—Tips for embedding Google Maps in your Webapp
• Google Sites—Working with Google Sites as a hosting platform
• Heroku—Cloud based deployment for Python Flask apps
• Heroku: Deploy button—Setting up a button on a github repo to automatically deploy an app to Heroku
• HTTP: Beyond GET and POST—What else is there, and why do I care?
• Image Galleries—Software to implement image galleries on your website
• JavaScript—Getting Started with Learning JavaScript
• JQuery—A library that makes JavaScript easier to use.
• Matplotlib—Producing plots inside a Flask Webapp without touching file system (so it works on Heroku)
• Meta Tags—helping your site fit in better with the rest of the internet
• MongoDB—A NoSQL database
• MongoDB: Java—Accessing MongoDB via Java
• MongoDB: MLab—A specific cloud provider of MongoDB services
• MongoDB: MLab Database Creation—Setting up a new database
• MongoDB: MLab Databases, Users and Collections—Next steps after creating a database
• MongoDB: Python—Accessing MongoDB via Python
• OAuth—The way we implement 'login with Facebook', 'login with Google', etc.
• OAuth: Flask-Social—A package to enable login with Facebook and other Social Media platforms
• OAuth: github—OAuth on Github with Flask
• OAuth: Github Setup—Client Credential Setup for Github
• Overview—An overview of things a web developer needs to know about
• Paged Media—When you want to write HTML, but print the result on paper
• Postgres—An SQL Database implementation supported on Heroku (alternative to sqlite3 and MySQL
• Postgres: MacOS—Troubleshooting for MacOS Postgres Issues
• Python—Python web app frameworks (Flask, Django, Pyramid)
• Reddit API—Tips on using the Reddit API
• Responsive—Making web sites look good on both desktop on mobile
• REST: Representational State Transfer—As in RESTful APIs, and all that.
• Security—Web application vulnerabilities and how to protect against them
• Security: CSRF—Cross Site Request Forgeries, and how to protect against them
• Selenium—Automating a web browser for testing and/or scraping
• Static Analysis—Automated code review bots
• Testing—Testing Flask Web Apps
• Travis-CI—Continuous Integration for your webapp
• Web Pages vs. Web Apps—Static web pages (HTML/CSS) vs. Dynamic Pages (client/server side code)

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