Microblog

Microblog is a Flask-based social blogging application that serves as the companion example project to the author’s Flask tutorial book, demonstrating how to build a production-ready web application with features typical of modern social systems. The project includes user registration and login, password hashing, profile editing, and avatar support, but it goes deeper by illustrating how to implement following/follower relationships, posting short messages, and displaying personalized feeds. It integrates SQL databases through SQLAlchemy and shows how to manage migrations, query optimization, and pagination for scalable content delivery. The app also includes unit and integration tests to reinforce test-driven development practices. Additional features such as full-text search, localization, email notifications, and deployment configurations are included or discussed to take developers beyond the basics.