A blogging platform using Flask, Jinja2 and Flask-SQLAlchemy.

See Demo deployed on Railway

• handling routes, request hooks and view functions with Flask.
• working with Jinja2 template engine, Flask-Bootstrap and Flask-Moment.
• creating web forms with Flask-WTF.
• displaying user-friendly messages with flash().
• managing the database with Flask-SQLAlchemy.
• updating the database model with Flask-Migrate.
• sending emails with Flask-Mail.
• using packages and modules to structure a large application that scales.

• implementing user authentication with Flask-Login and Werkzeug.
• registering new users and generating confirmation tokens with itsdangerous.
• managing roles and permissions for users, moderators and administrators.
• handling user profiles and displaying user avatars with Gravatar.
• building a blogging feature by reusing templates.
• paginating item lists and creating fake blog post data with Faker.
• enabling rich-text posts with Markdown and Flask-PageDown.
• displaying followers on the profile page.
• showing followed posts on the home page.
• handling comment moderation.

• using a Flask-based RESTful API to expose app functionality to smartphones, tablets and other third-party clients.
• managing user authentication with Flask-HTTPAuth and generating tokens.
• serializing resources to and from JSON.
• handling pagination of large resource collections.
• testing web services with HTTPie.

• learning how to run unit tests with Coverage, Flask test client and Selenium.
• enhancing application performance by logging slow database performance and high CPU consumption.

• deploying on Railway with a PostgreSQL database.

Based on Flask Web Development by Miguel Grinberg (2nd edition, 2018)