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Glad to see Flask surpass Django, it's always been my favorite web framework regardless of language and forces users to learn their style of software architectu

by Beefin 6y ago

Glad to see Flask surpass Django, it's always been my favorite web framework regardless of language and forces users to learn their style of software architecture. I personally prefer MVC: https://github.com/esteininger/flask-mvc-boilerplate https://github.com/esteininger/flask-mvc-boilerplate

ergo14 6y ago
Sure, just be sure to avoid threadlocals and pass them around explicitly!
- Beefin 6y ago
  threadlocals = app.context ? Agreed, but that's the beauty of Flask you can just pass around the request context.
  - ergo14 6y ago
    flash, g, redirect, render_template, request, session etc. Ideally request would be passed to view callables and would not be global. That is completely incompatible change so we will never see that I guess :(
vorticalbox 6y ago
I have always enjoyed sanic for my python apis https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
nojito 6y ago
All large flask implementations eventually turn into a crappy version of Django.
- stonecharioteer 6y ago
  I prefer Flask and I agree. However there is a big difference. If you learn how to turn flask into that crappy version of Django, you will thank yourself because you know what choices the Django Devs took. You will know what each section of a Django project is, and why it is that way, or how you can make it follow something nonstandard. I have interviewed plenty of flask and Django Devs, and usually, the Django Devs reply to some of my questions is usually "that's how Django does it" That is a poor, poor answer.
  - dplgk 6y ago
    Why is that a poor answer? Reinventing things is not helpful.
    - Beefin 6y ago
      because it defies first principles logic. you should know in some capacity what's going on behind the scenes, and Op's point is that Flask forces you to understand that.
stonecharioteer 6y ago
Oh god. I would not recommend that git repo to anyone. It is doing a lot wrong. Look at exploreflask.com for a great example on how to structure production grade flask applications. Read the flask docs, the later sections deal with the create_app factory function and how to use it. It is really good in that sense.
- Beefin 6y ago
  thanks for that link! that's my repo and what i've historically used for projects, have been looking for a good framework :)
- Beefin 6y ago
  do you have any example repos of flask projects that do this right?
BerislavLopac 6y ago
I was happy to see that Tornado is quite stable in the third place; it's probably the best Python framework currently in existence. Personally I have been moving to Starlette, but it's still far from Tornado's stability.

by Beefin 6y ago

ergo14 6y ago

Sure, just be sure to avoid threadlocals and pass them around explicitly!

Beefin 6y ago
threadlocals = app.context ? Agreed, but that's the beauty of Flask you can just pass around the request context.
- ergo14 6y ago
  flash, g, redirect, render_template, request, session etc. Ideally request would be passed to view callables and would not be global. That is completely incompatible change so we will never see that I guess :(

vorticalbox 6y ago

I have always enjoyed sanic for my python apis https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

nojito 6y ago

All large flask implementations eventually turn into a crappy version of Django.

stonecharioteer 6y ago
I prefer Flask and I agree. However there is a big difference. If you learn how to turn flask into that crappy version of Django, you will thank yourself because you know what choices the Django Devs took. You will know what each section of a Django project is, and why it is that way, or how you can make it follow something nonstandard. I have interviewed plenty of flask and Django Devs, and usually, the Django Devs reply to some of my questions is usually "that's how Django does it" That is a poor, poor answer.
- dplgk 6y ago
  Why is that a poor answer? Reinventing things is not helpful.
  - Beefin 6y ago
    because it defies first principles logic. you should know in some capacity what's going on behind the scenes, and Op's point is that Flask forces you to understand that.

stonecharioteer 6y ago

Oh god. I would not recommend that git repo to anyone. It is doing a lot wrong. Look at exploreflask.com for a great example on how to structure production grade flask applications. Read the flask docs, the later sections deal with the create_app factory function and how to use it. It is really good in that sense.

Beefin 6y ago
thanks for that link! that's my repo and what i've historically used for projects, have been looking for a good framework :)
Beefin 6y ago
do you have any example repos of flask projects that do this right?

BerislavLopac 6y ago

I was happy to see that Tornado is quite stable in the third place; it's probably the best Python framework currently in existence. Personally I have been moving to Starlette, but it's still far from Tornado's stability.