build-a-saas-app-with-flask VS cookiecutter-flask

I've been maintaining my Build a SAAS App with Flask video course[0] for 8 years. It has gone from pre-1.0 to 2.3 and has been recorded twice with tons of incremental updates added over the years to keep things current.

In my opinion tutorial creators should pin their versions so that anyone taking the course or going through the tutorial will have a working version that matches the video or written material.

I'm all for keeping things up to date and do update things every few months but rolling updates don't tend to work well for tutorials because sometimes a minor version requires a code change or covering new concepts. As a tutorial consumer it's frustrating when the content doesn't match the source code unless it's nothing but a version bump.

I've held off upgrading Flask to 3.0 and Python 3.12 due to these open issues with 3rd party dependencies https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/issues/17.

[0]: https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/

Flask Mega Tutorial and "Build a SaaS App" purchased directly from the course website are probably your best bets.

The resource I'm looking to learn from is u/nickjj_ course, but I'm trying to figure out how familiar I should be with Python before I dive into it. Looks like I may need some HTML/CSS/JS as well.

Build a SAAS App with Flask. Course / Boilerplate. https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/

Personally I maintain https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example. There's also https://github.com/nickjj/build-a-saas-app-with-flask if you want more opinions.

There's: https://github.com/nickjj/build-a-saas-app-with-flask

If you're looking only for a code reference there's https://github.com/nickjj/build-a-saas-app-with-flask which uses an app factory and Celery. It's all set up to send emails through Celery and has tests too.

A few years ago I started my programming/ SaaS yourney and now I can live from my solo bootstrapped SaaS. I started learning Python 2 (free) on codecademy. Followed by the free CS50 from Harvard on Edx.org . After that I build my first SaaS using the SaaS template/ course https://buildasaasappwithflask.com

This can help you

May you want to see this

No GUI but you can use https://github.com/cookiecutter-flask/cookiecutter-flask to generate a skeleton project. I personally don't use it as it's too opinionated for my liking, however, may find you can get up and running quickly.

you can use any cookiecutter for flask. https://github.com/cookiecutter-flask/cookiecutter-flask have a look

A quick Google search can reveal so much. As a programmer you should be very capable of finding it yourself (;

Well look, I would encourage you to, and it's easy to, start from a position of knowing that your code will run on a server. You could use cookiecutter-flask, or you could just find a heroku template for a Flask app - cloning it and deploying it becomes quite simple, and it is helpful (IMO) to know for a fact that everything you're doing is going to work fine on the server, and to grow accustomed to working in a "I'm going to push this feature to the server when it's finished" type of workflow.

I take it that you have never heard of cookiecutter or the recipe for starting a flask project?

Cookiecutter flask is a template for large projects, it’s always a great place to start and compare against https://github.com/cookiecutter-flask/cookiecutter-flask