flask-login VS flask-wtf

Compare flask-login vs flask-wtf and see what are their differences.

flask-wtf

Simple integration of Flask and WTForms, including CSRF, file upload and Recaptcha integration. (by wtforms)
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flask-login flask-wtf
10 4
3,491 1,436
- 0.8%
7.5 6.7
21 days ago about 1 month ago
Python Python
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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flask-login

Posts with mentions or reviews of flask-login. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.

flask-wtf

Posts with mentions or reviews of flask-wtf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-30.
  • How do you validate the json data in request?
    1 project | /r/flask | 2 Oct 2021
    Then I get the validation error even if the fields have proper values. I am not able to find anything relevant via Google search that's why I here for help.. Now I want to add validation to the JSON fields and I came to about the Flask-WTF package by doing some googling.
  • How does Flask know what form is?
    1 project | /r/flask | 18 Sep 2021
    As said in a comment bellow by u/dsaw12, flask-wtf does it all for you. You can read through the source code here. To answer your question, flask-wtf does it for you in this code block. Even if the form was just created there is also code to check if the request give was a POST, PUT, PATCH, or DELETE; after which it then checks if the form was submitted through an _is_submitted() method with in your form class.
  • Is my user session cookie secure?
    3 projects | /r/flask | 30 May 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flask-login and flask-wtf you can also consider the following projects:

Flask-AppBuilder - Simple and rapid application development framework, built on top of Flask. includes detailed security, auto CRUD generation for your models, google charts and much more. Demo (login with guest/welcome) - http://flaskappbuilder.pythonanywhere.com/

WTForms - A flexible forms validation and rendering library for Python.

python3-saml

bootstrap-flask - Bootstrap 4 & 5 helper for your Flask projects.

xsession-manager - Save and restore windows for X11 desktop environment like Gnome, and many other features.

eq-survey-runner - eQ Survey Runner

PyJWT - JSON Web Token implementation in Python

flask-mongoengine - MongoEngine flask extension with WTF model forms support

django-user-sessions - Extend Django sessions with a foreign key back to the user, allowing enumerating all user's sessions.

Threaded-Replies-using-Flask-SQLAlchemy-MySQL - A Python Flask app with a MySQL database that implements a nested/threaded replies commenting engine. SQLAlchemy is used as the ORM.

segno - Python QR Code and Micro QR Code encoder

flask-admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask