flask-tables VS Jinja2

This is really a matter of preference. I do not use Flask-Admin on my projects, I have always preferred to design my own admin pages than being forced to accept the choices that are imposed by these big extensions. This allows me to have a consistent UI across admin and non-admin pages.

One are that people often complain is that it is hard and/or tedious to build tables with data, which is one of the building blocks most admin pages need. Last year I wrote a blog article where I show how I build tables in my Flask apps: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/beautiful-interactive-t....

Check https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/beautiful-interactive-tables-for-your-flask-templates and then the Server Side section. That helps you create an API that paginates and searches, so you don't load all data at once, but the relevant/needed data.

jQuery datatables looks perfect. I've found a github repo using it in conjunction with flask. That's the perfect stack for me!

Looks like you need Datatable. See https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/beautiful-interactive-tables-for-your-flask-templates

But, on the other hand, I can read in the jinja repository that there is not the same Switching From Other Template Engines and also exists documentation about Support for templates engines

jinja: Default templating engine for and dependency of flask

or as complex as bringing Jinja into the picture. Some other options include mustache templates, the built in Template class, and some libraries noted here.

Jinja

Hey u/GuzTech , this issue is mostly related to an old version of jinja that you might be using, here is the report: https://github.com/pallets/jinja/issues/1585

Turns out it wasn't how I was getting the variable -- registered from the api call VS lookup('file') -- it was mainly that for some reason, using 'map()' sometimes needs ' | list | to_json ' tacked on to the end to correctly output the results without the "generator object do_map at xxxx" instead (as mentioned here).

- Link: https://github.com/pallets/jinja/blob/master/jinja2/sandbox.py

Cookiecutter is a command-line utility that creates projects from templates. There's a list of templates maintained by the cookiecutter team and plenty of community awesome lists. It's built with python and uses the jinja templating framework (found in python web frameworks like flask). You can use it to make a template for pretty much anything! All you need to get started is pip install cookiecutter.

This major release of Flask is accompanied by major releases of Werkzeug, Jinja2, click, and itsdangerous which we'd also welcome and appreciate testing (their pre releases are installed with the Flask pre release).