Good call on the Flask-Script mention. I will add a note about that. As far as configuration based on environment goes, I really dislike environment based conf

Good call on the Flask-Script mention. I will add a note about that. As far as configuration based on environment goes, I really dislike environment based configuration in my project repository. So I use Flask's instance folder functionality: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/config/#instance-folders http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/config/#instance-folders This file can be used to configure the app based on its environment wether it be local development or my production environment. The shared factory method attempts to load this file and fails silently if it does not exist. Regarding your SQLAlchemy comment, well...thats just not really something to add to the article now, is it? ;)