From the course: Secure Coding in Python
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The challenge of securing Flask - Python Tutorial
From the course: Secure Coding in Python
The challenge of securing Flask
- [Instructor] Flask is a very powerful microframework for creating web applications with Python. You'll really see it shine when it comes to creating microservices with little overhead. Flask doesn't offer much opinion in the way of how you should structure your project, leaving a lot of those choices up to you. Additionally, Flask is very bare bones. It doesn't come with the many features that other web frameworks pack out of the box. If you have the privilege of choosing which framework to get going with, it's a good idea to ask yourself a few questions. One would be, "Do I need a user management system?" While it's definitely possible to create a superb user system with Flask, a lot of the overhead can be avoided by choosing a tool like Django that has many of the built-in features you would need. Additionally, when you use Flask, you'll often need to choose additional tools to work with. If you want an ORM with…
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