A collection of tutorials that aim to help you get under way with web development with Python, concentrating on the two popular frameworks, Django and Flask.

Python Web Development with Django and Flask: Getting Started

Preface

If you’re about to develop a web app in Python, your first consideration may be whether to use Django or Flask . This guide will help you decide which of these two frameworks to use.

Django vs Flask: Which Framework Is Better?

If you manage a website that offers interactivity with the user, the use of HTML forms is an integral part of your web architecture. Django provides a number of tools and widgets to enable you to create engaging forms. In this tutorial, we’ll cover some advanced topics related to forms in Django.

Forms in Django

Flask is an agnostic Python microframework for developing web applications. By agnostic, I mean that it doesn’t have a preferred way of doing things. This is in contradistinction to Django and Ruby on Rails, which impose conventions as well as a preferred way to develop web applications. There’s a Django way of doing things and a Rails way of doing things. But since Flask isn’t an opinionated framework, there’s not a Flask way of doing things.

Constructing Forms with Flask-WTF

An ORM, or object-relational mapper, is a medium of transmission of data between a database and a web application. The ORM serves as a wrapper, with pre-defined functions for CRUD operations , which, in most cases, eliminates the need for a developer to write any direct SQL code.

A Guide to the Django ORM

Databases are used to store application data. Different types of databases provide language-specific connectors to connect to a database. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to work with and access databases in Flask web applications.

Flask: Working with and Accessing Databases

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to write tests for a Flask project. Flask is a Python web framework that allows developers to build advanced web applications using less code than you normally have to write, especially compared to other non-Python frameworks. As such, writing tests for a Flask application should be easy. Writing automated tests for a Flask application can be achieved using any of the following Python testing frameworks:

Testing a Flask Application

Django, the leading Python web application framework, has an elegant system for “migrating” your local database schema from your development environment to a remote server without hassles. Once you get how it works (spoiler: it’s super easy) you’ll save a ton of time and reduce mistakes.

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