Awesome Flask

A curated list of awesome Flask resources and plugins

TWIMC I merged the open PRs from the base repo. Sorry that I could not do it for every PR individually, would have taken to long. Thanks for the contributions tough.

Resources

• Collections

  • Awesome Flask by c-bata
  • Hackr Flask Tutorials
  • Real Python: Flask Category
  • Scotch.io Tutorials
  • Flask-SQLAlchemy Tutorials and Examples

• Tutorials

  • Free Flask Tutorial
  • How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing (by NPR)
  • Building websites in Python with Flask
  • The Flask Mega-Tutorial
  • Discover Flask - Full Stack Web Development with Flask
  • Flaskr - Intro to Flask, Test Driven Development, and jQuery
  • Flask by Example
  • How to build a Polling/Voting web application with Flask
  • Add Google Oauth2 login in your Flask web app
  • Token based Authentication with Flask

• Tutorials API

  • Implementing a RESTful Web API with Python & Flask
  • Working with JSON in Python Flask

• Tutorials Zappa

  • Building a Simple API with Amazon Lambda and Zappa
  • Deploying A Flask based REST API to AWS Lambda (Serverless) using Zappa
  • Bringing Tokusatsu to AWS using Python flask, Zappa and Contentful [Mar 7, 2018]

• Courses

  • Test Driven Development Courses - Microservices with Docker, Flask, and React
  • Full Stack Foundations
  • Designing RESTful APIs
  • REST APIs with Flask and Python
  • Professional Python Web Development Using Flask
  • Advanced Scalable Python Web Development Using Flask
  • The Build a SAAS App with Flask Course
  • Rapid Flask

• Books

  • Explore Flask
  • Flask Web Development
  • Real Python
  • Learning Flask Framework
  • Flask Blueprints
  • Flask Framework Cookbook
  • Mastering Flask
  • Building Web Applications with Flask

• Slides

  • Creating beautiful REST APIs with Flask
  • Flask for Fun and Profit - Armin Ronacher, August 20, 2016, has some info about JSON Apis with Flask
  • Advanced Flask Patterns
  • Flasky Goodness
  • Domain Driven Design (... with Flask)
  • In Flask we Trust

• Videos

  • Flask by Example
  • Writing RESTful web services with Flask
  • Practical Flask Web Development Tutorials
  • Flask at Scale (PyCon 2016, Miguel Grinberg)
  • Flask Workshop (PyCon 2015, Miguel Grinberg)

• Built with Flask

  • zmusic-ng - ZX2C4 Music provides a web interface for playing and downloading music files using metadata.
  • GuitarFan - guitar tab
  • June - python-china.org
  • Zerqu - ZERQU is a content-focused API-based platform. eg: Python-China
  • motiky
  • missing - a list service called missing
  • thenewsmeme.com
  • overholt - Example Flask application illustrating common practices
  • pypress - flask team blog
  • thepast.me
  • redispapa - another redis monitor by using flask, angular, socket.io
  • flaskblog - a simple blog system based on flask
  • cleanblog - a clean blog system based on flask and mongoengine
  • OctBlog - Yet another blog system powered by Flask and MongoDB
  • gitmark - An app to manage github repositories
  • Quokka CMS - CMS made with Flask and MongoDB
  • chat - a live chat built with python (flask + gevent + apscheduler) + redis
  • chatapp - Flask and Angular.js Chat Application using Socket.io
  • flask-chat-socketIO - Chat example with Flask-socketIO and Vuejs
  • Frozen-Flask - Freezes a Flask application into a set of static files
  • mcflyin - A small timeseries transformation API built on Flask and Pandas
  • Skylines - Live tracking, flight database and competition framework
  • airflow - Airflow is a system to programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines.
  • timesketch - Collaborative forensics timeline analysis
  • changes - A dashboard for your code. A build system.
  • security_monkey - monitors policy changes and alerts on insecure configurations in an AWS account.
  • securedrop- an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.
  • sync_engine - IMAP/SMTP sync system with modern APIs
  • cleansweep - Volunteer & Campaign Management System
  • indico - a general-purpose event management web-based solution. It includes a full-blown conference organization workflow as well as tools for meeting management and room booking. It provides as well integration with video-conferencing solutions.
  • flaskbb - A classic Forum Software in Python using Flask. https://flaskbb.org
  • Facture - Web app to quickly generate invoices in PDF

• App template/bootstrap/boilerplate

  • fbone
  • flask-base
  • cookiecutter-flask - good!
  • cookiecutter-flask-pythonic
  • Flask-Foundation
  • Flask-note - Clone of Evernote with Flask and Markdown. Example application for managing notes
  • Flask-contacts - Example of CRUD with Flask to manage a contact list
  • Flask-Empty
  • flask-rest-template
  • gae-init - Flask boilerplate running on Google App Engine
  • GAE Starter Kit - Flask, Flask-Login, WTForms, UIKit, and more, running on Google App Engine
  • redash - Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data
  • pyxley - Python helpers for building dashboards using Flask and React

Plugins

• Framework
  • Connexion - Swagger/OpenAPI First framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation and OAuth2 support
  • Flask Kit - Flexible microkit for Flask microframework
  • Flask API - Browsable web APIs for Flask (in maintenance mode)
  • flask-peewee - flask integration for peewee, including admin, authentication, rest api and more
  • Flask-MongoRest - Restful API framework wrapped around MongoEngine
  • Eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions
  • Flask-Restless - A Flask extension for creating simple ReSTful APIs from SQLAlchemy models
  • Flask-RESTful - Simple framework for creating REST APIs
  • Flask-RestPlus - syntaxic sugar, helpers and automatically generated Swagger documentation.
  • Flask-Potion - RESTful API framework for Flask and SQLAlchemy
  • enferno - A Flask-based Framework for the Next Decade
  • Flasgger - Create API documentation for Flask views using Swagger 2.0 specs
  • flask-restful-swagger - A wrapper for flask-restful which enables swagger support
  • SQLAlchemy-JSONAPI - A JSON API implementation for SQLAlchemy which can also be used with Flask
  • flask-rispozo A tool for quickly creating REST/HATEOAS/Hypermedia APIs in Flask based on Rispozo
  • gREST - Build REST APIs with Neo4j and Flask, as quickly as possible!
  • Flask Orator Blueprints - Rest Api framework wrapped around Orator-ORM
  • Zappa - Build and deploy server-less Flask applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway
• Admin
  • Flask-Admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask
  • Flask-SuperAdmin - The best admin interface framework for Flask. With scaffolding for MongoEngine, Django and SQLAlchemy
• Authentication
  • Flask-Security - Quick and simple security for Flask applications
  • Flask-Login - Flask user session management
  • Authomatic - Authomatic provides out of the box support for a number of providers using OAuth 1.0a (Twitter, Tumblr and more) and OAuth 2.0 (Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Google, LinkedIn, PayPal and more)
  • Flask-OIDC - OpenID Connect for Flask
  • Flask-OpenID - Flask-OpenID adds openid support to flask applications
  • Flask-Social - OAuth Provider Integration for Flask-Security
  • Flask-OAuthlib - OAuthlib implementation for Flask
  • Flask-OAuth - OAuth Support for Flask
  • Flask-social-blueprint - OAuth OOP way
  • flask-googlefed - Google Federated Logins for Flask
  • GitHub-Flask - Flask extension for authenticating users with GitHub and making requests to the API
  • Python-Social-Auth - Social auth made simple
  • Flask-HTTPAuth - Simple extension that provides Basic and Digest HTTP authentication for Flask routes
  • Flask-User - Customizable user account management for Flask
  • Flask-FIDO-U2F - FIDO U2F Support for Flask
• Authorization
  • Flask-Pundit - Extension based on Rails' Pundit gem that provides easy way to organize access control for your models
• Database/ORM/ODM
  • Flask-MongoEngine - MongoEngine flask extension with WTF model forms support
  • Flask-PyMongo - PyMongo support for Flask applications
  • Flask-MongoAlchemy - Flask support for MongoDB using MongoAlchemy
  • Flask-MongoKit - Flask-MongoKit simplifies the use of MongoKit (a powerful MongoDB ORM for Python) within Flask applications
  • Flask-SQLAlchemy - Adds SQLAlchemy support to Flask
  • Flask-Redis - Redis support for Flask. Not much else to say.
  • Flask-And-Redis - Simple as dead support of Redis database for Flask apps
  • Flask-CouchDBKit - Flask extension that provides integration with CouchDBKit
  • Flask-OrientDB - Flask extension for OrientDB Graph&Document Database
  • Flask-Z3950 - Z39.50 integration for Flask applications.
  • Flask-Orator - Adds Orator ORM support to Flask applications.
• Database Migrations
  • Flask-Migrate - SQLAlchemy database migrations for Flask applications using Alembic
  • Flask-Alembic - A Flask Extension to provide Alembic integration with Flask
• Session
  • Flask-Session - Session extension for Flask
• Cache
  • flask-webcache - A Flask extension that adds HTTP based caching to Flask apps
  • flask-heroku-cacheify - Automatic Flask cache configuration on Heroku
  • Flask-Dogpile-Cache - Flask wrapper for dogpile.cache
• Static Files
  • Flask-Rev - Make Flask play nice with Http Server static file caching
• Data Validation
  • Flask-WTF - Simple integration of Flask and WTForms, including CSRF, file upload and Recaptcha integration.
  • Flask-SeaSurf - SeaSurf is a Flask extension for preventing cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
  • Colander - A serialization/deserialization/validation library for strings, mappings and lists
  • Flask-Validator - Data validator for SQLAlchemy using ORM events
• Email
  • Flask-Mail - Flask-Mail adds SMTP mail sending to your Flask applications
  • flask-notifyAll - A Flask extension to access sending sms/emails/test emails, providers such as: Twilio, Mailtrap.
• i18n
  • flask-babel - i18n and l10n support for Flask based on Babel and pytz
• Full-text searching
  • Flask-WhooshAlchemy - Whoosh indexing capabilities for Flask-SQLAlchemy
  • SQLAlchemy-Searchable - Full-text searching for Flask-SQLAlchemy (Postgres only)
• Rate Limiting
  • Flask-Limiter - Flask-Limiter provides rate limiting features to flask routes
• Queue
  • Flask-RQ - RQ (Redis Queue) integration for Flask applications
  • celery - Distributed Task Queue
• Payment
  • PagSeguro - Brazil - Example to integrate Flask to PagSeguro Brazilian payment gateway
  • alipay_python - not a flask plugin now but you can integrate easily
  • flask-paypal - PayPal integration example with Flask
  • Flask-WePay - A Flask wrapper for WePay's Python API
• Exception tracking
  • Raven - Raven is a Python client for Sentry.
• Metrics Tracking
  • flask-track-usage - Basic metrics tracking for the Flask framework
  • Flask-Analytics - A Flask extention that provide user navigation tracking
  • Flask-StatHat - StatHat extension for Flask
  • scales - Metrics for Python
  • flask-tracking - Tracking app for Flask that logs HTTP request and response information in a capped MongoDB collection
  • Flask-Analytics - Analytics snippets generator extension for the Flask framework.
• Other SDK
  • Flask-GoogleMaps - Build and embed google maps in our Flask templates
  • Flask-Dropbox - Dropbox Python SDK support for Flask applications
  • Flask-Heroku - Heroku environment variable configurations for Flask
  • Flask-Azure-Storage - Flask extension that provides integration with Azure Storage
  • flask-wtf-storage - extend flask-wtf to support saving data to google storage
  • Flask-Gravatar - Small and simple gravatar usage in Flask
  • Flask-WeasyPrint - Make PDF in your Flask app with WeasyPrint
  • Flask-WeRoBot - Adds WeRoBot support to Flask
  • Flask-Pusher - Pusher integration for Flask
  • flask-pusher - Pusher support for your Flask application
• Frontend (Asset Pipeline/CDN)
  • FlaskSR - Make flask pages load faster and better by streaming partial HTTP Responses
  • Flask-Mustache - Mustache template integration with Flask
  • Flask-Genshi - Genshi templating for Flask
  • flask-mako - Provides support for Mako Templates in Flask
  • Flask-Markdown - Markdown jinja2 extension for Flask
  • Flask-Sijax - An extension for the Flask microframework that adds Sijax support
  • flask-apispec - simple self-documenting APIs with flask
  • flask-assets - Flask webassets integration
  • flask-funnel - Better asset management for Flask
  • flask-marshmallow Flask + marshmallow for beautiful APIs
  • jinja-assets-compressor - A Jinja extension (compatible with Flask and other frameworks) to compile and/or compress your assets
  • flask_util_js - flask's util in javascript. such as url_for etc
  • flask-s3 - Seamlessly serve your static assets of your Flask app from Amazon S3
  • Flask-SSLify - Force SSL on your Flask app
  • Flask-gzip - Gzip flask responses
  • Flask-HTMLmin - Flask html minifier
  • Flask-Rev - Easely invalidate old cached static files
• Development (Debugging/Testing/AB Testing)
  • flask_profiler - endpoint analyzer/profiler for Flask
  • Flask-Testing - Unittest extensions for Flask
  • flask_debugtoolbar_lineprofilerpanel - Line Profiler Panel for Flask Debug Toolbar
  • Flask-DebugToolbar - A port of the django debug toolbar to flask
  • flask-debug-toolbar-mongo - MongoDB panel for the Flask Debug Toolbar
  • pytest-flask - A set of pytest fixtures to test Flask applications
  • flask2postman - Generate a Postman collection from your Flask application
• Utils
  • Empty - Makes your development much faster by adding some very useful defaults to Flask
  • Flask-Script - Flask extension to help writing external scripts for Flask applications
  • Flask-Split - A/B testing for your Flask application
  • flask-jsonrpc - A basic JSON-RPC implementation for your Flask-powered sites
  • Flask-Bcrypt - Flask-Bcrypt is a Flask extension that provides bcrypt hashing utilities for your application
  • Flask-AppBuilder - Simple and rapid application builder framework, built on top of Flask. includes detailed security, auto form generation, google charts and much more
  • Mixer - Mixer is application to generate instances of Django or SQLAlchemy models
  • FlaskEx - Predefined help libraries for Flask
  • mimerender - Python module for RESTful HTTP Content Negotiation
  • Flask-Classy - Class based views for Flask
  • Flask-Principal - Identity management for Flask applications
  • Flask-ShortUrl - Short URL generator for Flask
  • Flask-FeatureFlags - A Flask extension that enables or disables features based on configuration
  • Flask-UUID - UUID url converter for Flask routes
  • Flask-Reggie - Regex Converter for Flask URL Routes
  • Flask-SocketIO - Socket.IO integration for Flask applications
  • Flask-Moment - Formatting of dates and times in Flask templates using moment.js
  • Flask-Paginate - Pagination support for Flask
  • Flask-CORS - Flask extension for handling Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), making cross-origin AJAX possible
  • Flask-Styleguide - A living Styleguide for your Flask application