flask-frontend-template

Minimal example demonstrating flask's templating functionality and how to define basic endpoint.

Do note that this is NOT an example of a production-ready server. It is meant as a gentle introduction to the basic concepts involved with creating an front-end or API with flask.

Instructions

Prerequisites:

pip install flask

Run:

python main.py

or

./main.py

Visit the URL printed in your Terminal. Your web app will be running on port 1337.

Note: in containerized environments, you will need to bind to an IP which is accessible, which can be configured through editing main.py or by running the following (which will take precedence over the former):

flask run --host 0.0.0.0 [--port 1337]

When moving to a production server (e.g. gunicorn with wsgi), you will specify hosts and ports differently, and the settings in main.py will not be relevant since the entry-point will not be main:__main__ but rather main:app