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.