Awesome Flask

A curated list of awesome Flask resources and plugins

• Awesome Flask


• Framework


• Admin interface


• Analytics


• Authentication


• Authorization


• Database


• Database Migrations


• Session


• Cache


• Data Validation


• Email


• i18n


• Full-text searching


• Rate Limiting


• Task Queue


• Exception tracking


• Tracing


• APM


• Other SDK


• Frontend


• Development (Debugging/Testing/Documentation)


• Utils


• Resources


• Tutorials


• Courses


• Books


• Slides


• Videos


• Built with Flask


• Boilerplate

Framework

• Connexion - Swagger/OpenAPI First framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation and OAuth2 support


• 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


• Zappa - Build and deploy server-less Flask applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway

Admin interface

• Flask-Admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask

Analytics

• Flask-Analytics - Analytics snippets generator extension for the Flask framework


• Flask-Matomo - Track requests to your Flask website with Matomo

Authentication

• Flask-Security - Quick and simple security for Flask applications


• Flask-Login - Flask user session management


• Flask-User - Customizable user account management for Flask


• Flask-HTTPAuth - Simple extension that provides Basic and Digest HTTP authentication for Flask routes


• Flask-Praetorian - Strong, Simple, and Precise security for Flask APIs (using jwt)

Authorization

• Authlib - Authlib is an ambitious authentication library for OAuth 1, OAuth 2, OpenID clients, servers and more.


• 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-Pundit - Extension based on Rails' Pundit gem that provides easy way to organize access control for your models


• Flask-Dance - OAuth consumer extension for Flask, shipped with pre-set support for Facebook, GitHub, Google, etc.

Database

• Flask-MongoEngine - MongoEngine flask extension with WTF model forms support


• Flask-SQLAlchemy - Adds SQLAlchemy support to Flask

Database Migrations

• Flask-Migrate - SQLAlchemy database migrations for Flask applications using Alembic

Session

• Flask-Session - Server side session extension for Flask

Cache

• Flask-Caching - Adds easy cache support to Flask


• flask-heroku-cacheify - Automatic Flask cache configuration on Heroku

Data Validation

• Flask-WTF - Simple integration of Flask and WTForms, including CSRF, file upload and Recaptcha integration.

Email

• Flask-Mail - Flask-Mail adds SMTP mail sending to your Flask applications

i18n

• flask-babel - i18n and l10n support for Flask based on Babel and pytz

Full-text searching

• SQLAlchemy-Searchable - Full-text searching for Flask-SQLAlchemy (Postgres only)


• flask_msearch - Full text search for flask with whoosh

Rate Limiting

• Flask-Limiter - Flask-Limiter provides rate limiting features to flask routes

Task Queue

• Flask-Dramatiq - dramatiq integration for Flask applications.


• huey - a little task queue for python


• Flask-RQ - RQ (Redis Queue) integration for Flask applications


• celery - Distributed Task Queue

Exception tracking

• sentry-sdk - Python client for Sentry.


• airbrake-python - Python client for Airbrake

Tracing

• flask-zipkin - Distributed tracing with Zipkin.


• Flask-OpenTracing - Distributed tracing with OpenTracing.

APM

• elastic-apm - Elastic APM agent for Python

Other SDK

• Flask-GoogleMaps - Build and embed google maps in our Flask templates


• Flask-Gravatar - Small and simple gravatar usage in Flask


• Flask-Pusher - Pusher integration for Flask


• Flask-Azure-Storage - Flask extension that provides integration with Azure Storage

Frontend

• Flask-CORS - A Flask extension for handling Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), making cross-origin AJAX possible


• flask-assets - Flask webassets integration


• flask-s3 - Seamlessly serve your static assets of your Flask app from Amazon S3


• Flask-SSLify - Force SSL on your Flask app


• Flask-HTMLmin - Flask html minifier

Development (Debugging/Testing/Documentation)

• Flasgger - Create API documentation for Flask views using Swagger 2.0 specs


• flask-apispec - simple self-documenting APIs with flask


• flask2postman - Generate a Postman collection from your Flask application


• flask_profiler - endpoint analyzer/profiler for Flask


• Flask-DebugToolbar - A port of the django debug toolbar to flask


• flask-debug-toolbar-mongo - MongoDB panel for the Flask Debug Toolbar


• Flask-Testing - Unittest extensions for Flask


• pytest-flask - A set of pytest fixtures to test Flask applications


• Flask-MonitoringDashboard - Automatically monitor the evolving performance of Flask/Python web services.


• nplusone - Auto-detect n+1 queries with Flask and SQLAlchemy


• connexion - Swagger/OpenAPI First framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation & OAuth2 support.

Utils

• flask-marshmallow Flask + marshmallow for beautiful APIs


• 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


• Mixer - Mixer is application to generate instances of Django or SQLAlchemy models


• Flask-FeatureFlags - A Flask extension that enables or disables features based on configuration


• 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-graphql - Adds GraphQL support to your Flask application

Resources
Tutorials

• 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


• Implementing a RESTful Web API with Python & Flask


• Discover Flask - Full Stack Web Development with Flask


• Flaskr - Intro to Flask, Test Driven Development, and jQuery

Courses

• Full Stack Foundations


• Designing RESTful APIs

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


• Advanced Flask Patterns


• Flasky Goodness


• Domain Driven Design (... with Flask)


• In Flask we Trust

Videos

• PyVideo


• Practical Flask Web Development Tutorials

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


• 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


• 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.


• [PythonBuddy] (https://github.com/ethanchewy/PythonBuddy) - Online Python Editor With Live Syntax Checking and Execution

Boilerplate

• fbone


• cookiecutter-flask


• Flask-Foundation


• flask-rest-template


• gae-init - Flask boilerplate running on Google App Engine


• Flask-AppBuilder - Simple and rapid application builder framework, built on top of Flask. includes detailed security, auto form generation, google charts and much more