Flasky is a comprehensive example web application built with the Flask microframework that demonstrates best practices for developing real-world Python web applications, covering everything from project structure and configuration to database models, authentication, and deployment. It serves as both a tutorial and sample codebase that walks developers through building a full-featured web application, including user registration and login, role-based permissions, user profiles, and content creation. The project shows how to organize a Flask application into reusable blueprints, configure environment-specific settings, integrate SQL databases via SQLAlchemy, and manage migrations. Beyond the core web functionality, Flasky illustrates testing strategies using Python’s unittest framework, including tests for models, views, and authentication flows to promote test-driven development.
Features
- Full example Flask web app project structure
- User authentication and role-based permissions
- Database integration and migrations with SQLAlchemy
- Form handling with WTForms
- Unit testing for models and views
- Configuration for multiple environments