IIRC, Flask was originally written as a joke. It was also created in the era when using thread locals was still somewhat common but going out of style. I've alw

IIRC, Flask was originally written as a joke. It was also created in the era when using thread locals was still somewhat common but going out of style. I've always been a bit stumped as to how it got so popular. I usually recommend Django + DRF, Pyramid + SQLAlchemy, or FastAPI, depending on the project.