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build-a-saas-app-with-flask
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We Have to Talk About 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.
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Show HN: The pure Python SaaS starter kit
Build a SAAS App with Flask. Course / Boilerplate. https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/
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starter project?
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.
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Django 4.1 Released
Thanks a lot!
By the way the version of the course on Udemy doesn't get updated. The full version of the course is at https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/ which includes lifetime free updates (it has over 10+ hours of extra updates and new features not on the Udemy version). Udemy is a really bad platform for instructors which is why I've been trying hard to decouple myself from them over time.
As for a tutorial on using this repo specifically, did you find the readme file lacking in any way? I tried to write the readme to be fully self contained. It would expect prior Docker knowledge tho. I did give a talk at DockerCon going over a bunch of Docker best practices at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/best-practices-around-product.... It was using a Flask example repo not Django but everything still applies. The same patterns are used.
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Bittersweet Symfony: Devs accidentally turn off CSRF protection in PHP framework
Indeed, you can also create a Jinja macro to auto-insert the token into all of your forms too, here's a code example[0]. It's a 100% solved problem both on the Flask back-end and template side with an ability to opt out of it when you need to on the back-end such as accepting webhooks from another service.
[0]: https://github.com/nickjj/build-a-saas-app-with-flask/blob/1...
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Gunicorn
Gunicorn is one of my favorite app servers. I've been using Gunicorn in production on a bunch of projects (any Flask / Django project) for around 8 years now. It's rock solid and extremely predictable.
I also use Gunicorn in development too, it supports code reloading and also lets you enable Flask's debug middleware so you can use the interactive debugger. This is all configured in my Build a SAAS App with Flask course, a code example is here: https://github.com/nickjj/build-a-saas-app-with-flask.
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Miguel Grinberg Book/Tutorial
That makes sense. Also do you have any experience with https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/ ?
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Corey Schafer vs Miguel Grinberg to learn Flask? Any other course recommendations?
Can’t speak to Corey Schafer’s, but I found this course here to be much better than Miguel’s https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/
- The rise of the one-person unicorn
docker-flask-example
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We Have to Talk About 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.
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Working with Docker Containers Made Easy with the Dexec Bash Script
I usually end up with project specific "run" scripts which are just shell scripts so I can do things like `./run shell` to drop into the shell of a container, or `./run rails db:migrate` to run a command in a container.
Here's a few project specific examples. They all have similar run scripts:
- https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example
- Looking to use Docker & Docker Compose in production and need advice.
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Docker Compose Examples
There's a lot of "tool" selections in that repo.
If anyone is looking for ready to go web app examples aimed at both development and production, I maintain:
- https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example
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starter project?
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.
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Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
This is what I do except I use a shell script instead of a Makefile.
A working example of this is at: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/blob/912388f3...
Those ./run ci:XXX commands are in: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/blob/912388f3...
I like it because if CI ever happens to be down I can still run that shell script locally.
- docker-compose file repository?
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How boring should your team be
> I've encountered a code written in the 12factor style of using environment variables for configuration, and in that particular case there was no validation nor documentation of the configuration options. Is this typical?
I don't know about typical, it comes down to how your team values the code they write.
You can have a .env.example file commit to version control which explains every option in as much or as little detail as you'd like. For my own personal projects, I tend to document this file like this https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/blob/main/.en....
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
I did this for a while but make isn't well suited for this use case. What I end up doing is have a shell script with a bunch of functions in it. Functions automatically becomes a callable a command (with a way to make private functions if you want) with pretty much no boiler plate.
The benefit of this is it's just shell scripting so you can use shell features like $@ to pass args to another command or easily source and deal with env vars.
I've written about this process at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/replacing-make-with-a-shell-s... and an example file is here https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/blob/main/run.
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Flask boilerplate project recommendation?
There's: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example
What are some alternatives?
mangum - AWS Lambda support for ASGI applications
cookiecutter-flask - A flask template with Bootstrap, asset bundling+minification with webpack, starter templates, and registration/authentication. For use with cookiecutter.
flask-boilerplate - Boilerplate template for a Python Flask application with Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-WTF, Fabric, Coverage, and Bootstrap
earthly - Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.
flask-boilerplate - Flask boilerplate using the application factory with basic authentication.
microblog - The microblogging application developed in my Flask Mega-Tutorial series. This version maps to the 2024 Edition of the tutorial.
hypercorn
clean-code-python - :bathtub: Clean Code concepts adapted for Python
python-gunicorn-uvicorn - Multiarchitecture Docker Containers for Python using Gunicorn and Uvicorn
full-stack-fastapi-template - Full stack, modern web application template. Using FastAPI, React, SQLModel, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, automatic HTTPS and more.
flask-jwt-extended - An open source Flask extension that provides JWT support (with batteries included)!
postgres-and-redis - 🗄 PostgreSQL + Redis. Self-Hosted. Docker + Traefik + HTTPS.