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  1. Python
  2. Flask

Docs

A collection of various Flask, and Flask Extension documentations

The information below mainly came from the following repo. https://github.com/mjhea0/awesome-flask

Official Docs:

Flask - https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/

Third-Party Extensions

  • Admin

  • APIs

  • Auth

  • Cache

  • Data Validation and Serialization

  • Databases

  • Developer Tools

  • Email

  • Forms

  • Full-text Search

  • Security

  • Task Queues

  • Utils

Admin

  • Flask-Admin - Functional admin panel that provides a user interface for managing data based on your models.

APIs

RESTful API Support

  • Eve - RESTful API framework designed for human beings.

  • Flask-Classful - Adds support for class-based views for setting up RESTful API route endpoints.

  • Flask-MongoRest - RESTful API framework wrapped around MongoEngine.

  • Flask-RESTful - Quickly build RESTful APIs.

RESTful API + Swagger/OpenAPI Documentation Support

  • Connexion - Open source, OpenAPI-based, REST framework built on top of Flask.

  • Flask-Rebar - Combines Flask, marshmallow, and OpenAPI for robust REST services.

  • Flask-RESTX - Community-driven fork of Flask-RESTPlus that makes it easy to build and document RESTful APIs with Flask.

Swagger/OpenAPI Documentation Support

  • Flask-APISpec - Auto-documenting REST APIs.

  • SAFRS: Python OpenAPI & JSON:API Framework - SAFRS, which is an acronym for SqlAlchemy Flask-Restful Swagger, is meant to help developers create self-documenting JSON APIs for SQLAlchemy database objects and relationships.

Auth

Basic Auth and Session-based (for HTML Endpoints)

  • Flask-HTTPAuth - Authentication.

  • Flask-Login - Account management and authentication.

  • Flask Principal - Authorization.

  • Flask-Security-Too - Account management, authentication, authorization.

  • Flask-SimpleLogin - Authentication.

  • Flask-User - Account management, authentication, authorization.

Curious about the differences differences between Flask-User and Flask-Security? Review the Flask-User FAQ.

JWT-based (for JSON Endpoints)

  • Flask-JWT - Basic support for working with JWTs.

  • Flask-JWT-Extended - Advanced support for working with JWTs.

  • Flask-JWT-Router - Adds authorized routes to a Flask app.

  • Flask-Praetorian - Authentication and authorization for Flask APIs.

OAuth

  • Authlib - Library for building OAuth and OpenID clients and servers.

  • Authomatic - Framework agnostic library for Python web applications that simplifies authentication and authorization of users via OAuth and OpenID.

  • Flask-Dance - OAuth support via OAuthLib.

Cache

  • Flask-Caching - Caching support.

Data Validation and Serialization

  • Flask-Marshmallow - Thin integration layer for Flask and marshmallow (an object serialization /deserialization library) that adds additional features to marshmallow.

  • Flask-Pydantic - Pydantic support.

Databases

ORMs

  • Flask-Peewee - Support for Peewee, an ORM and database migration tool.

  • Flask-Pony - Support for Pony ORM.

  • Flask-SQLAlchemy - Support for SQLAlchemy, a SQL toolkit and ORM.

ODMs

  • Flask-MongoEngine - Bridges Flask and MongoEngine for working with MongoDB.

  • Flask-PyMongo - Bridges Flask and PyMongo for working with MongoDB.

Migrations

  • Flask-Alembic - Configurable Alembic migration environment around a Flask-SQLAlchemy database for handling database migrations.

  • Flask-DB - Flask CLI extension that helps you migrate, drop, create and seed your SQL database.

  • Flask-Migrate - Handles SQLAlchemy database migrations via Alembic.

Curious about the differences between Alembic, Flask-Alembic, Flask-Migrate, and Flask-DB? Review this item from Flask-DB's FAQ.

Other Tools

  • Flask-Excel - Uses pyexcel to read, manipulate, and write data in different Excel formats: csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm.

Developer Tools

Debugging

  • Flask-DebugToolbar - Port of Django's debug toolbar for Flask.

  • Flask-Profiler - Endpoint analyzer/profiler.

Fixtures

  • Flask-Fixtures - Create database fixtures from JSON or YAML.

  • Mixer - Object generation tool.

Logging

  • Rollbar - Flask error logging with Rollbar.

Monitoring

  • Airbrake - Airbrake Flask integration.

  • Elastic APM Agent - Elastic APM Flask integration.

  • Flask Monitoring Dashboard - Dashboard for automatic monitoring of Flask web-services.

  • Sentry Python SDK - Sentry SDK Flask integration.

Tracing

  • Flask-OpenTracing - OpenTracing instrumentation.

Testing

  • Flask-Testing - Unittest extensions.

  • Pytest-Flask - Pytest support for testing Flask applications.

Email

  • Flask-Mail - Provides simple email sending capabilities.

Forms

  • Flask-WTF - Integrates Flask with WTForms (provides CSRF protection as well).

Full-text Search

  • flask-msearch - Full-text search.

  • Flask-WhooshAlchemy3 - Full-text search + Whoosh indexing capabilities for Flask-SQLAlchemy.

  • SQLAlchemy-Searchable - Provides full-text search capabilities for SQLAlchemy models.

Security

  • Flask-Bcrypt - Provides bcrypt hashing utilities.

  • Flask-CORS - Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) handling.

  • Flask-SeaSurf - Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) prevention.

  • Flask-Talisman - HTTPS and security headers.

Task Queues

  • Celery - The most commonly used Python library for handling asynchronous tasks and scheduling.

  • Dramatiq - Fast and reliable alternative to Celery.

  • Flask-RQ - RQ (Redis Queue) integration.

  • Huey - Redis-based task queue that aims to provide a simple, yet flexible framework for executing tasks.

Utils

  • Flask-Babel - Support for internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n).

  • Flask-File-Upload - Easy file uploads.

  • Flask-FlatPages - Provides flat static pages based on text files.

  • Frozen-Flask - Freezes a Flask application into a set of static files.

  • Flask-GraphQL - GraphQL support.

  • Flask-Injector - Adds support for dependency injection.

  • Flask-Limiter - Rate limiting features to Flask routes.

  • Flask-Moment - Moment.js date and time formatting helpers for Jinja2 templates.

  • Flask-Paginate - Pagination support.

  • Flask-Shell2HTTP - RESTful/HTTP wrapper for Python's subprocess API, so you can convert any command-line tool into a RESTful API service.

  • Flask-Sitemap - Sitemap generation.

  • Flask-SocketIO - Socket.IO integration.

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