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#Flask: Building Python Web Services By Packt

##What you will learn:

• Build three web applications from the ground up using the powerful Python micro framework, Flask.
• Dynamically display data to your viewers, based on their requests
• Store user and static data in SQL and NoSQL databases and use this data to power your web applications
• Create a good user experience by combining HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Harness the convenience of freely available APIs, including OpenWeatherMap, Open Exchange Rates, and bitly
• Extend your applications to build advanced functionality, such as a user account control system using Flask-Login
• Learn about web application security and defend against common attacks, such as SQL injection and XSS
• Configure Flask in best way to suit the application needs
• Integrate with technologies like Redis, Sentry, MongoDB and so on
• Build applications with integrations to most of the login mechanisms available
• Write beautiful RESTful applications
• Create an admin interface for your application
• Learn about efficient and effective error handling
• Test your applications as you write them to prevent future complications
• Don't just stop at development. Learn about deployment and post-deployment
• Implement full-text search for effective user query handling
• Set up a best practices Python environment
• Use SQLAlchemy to programmatically query a database
• Develop templates in Jinja
• Set up an MVC environment for Flask
• Discover NoSQL, when to use it, when not to, and how to use it
• Develop a custom Flask extension
• Use Celery to create asynchronous tasks