Web Development

Python is an excellent platform for creating web applications. One of the more popular tools for this task, that also embraces the expressiveness of Python, is the Flask framework.

Course Content

Here you will learn how to get a basic website up and running using the Flask framework. We will also show how the application easily can be extended from the large collection of extensions, and how to maintain such an application. Some time will also be allotted to introducing Nginx.

Prerequisite

This course requires some familiarity with the Python programming language, introduced here.

Experience with HTML/JS/CSS is recommended, but not required.

Duration: 2-8 hours

Tools Introduced

Flask

Flask is a popular web framework written in Python. It is a minimal core that can be extended with features; using add-on modules for most features. Amongst the applications of Flask, we find both Pinterest and Linkedin.

Nginx

Nginx is a web server. It can act as a reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer and an HTTP cache.