Awesome Flask

A curated list of awesome Flask resources and plugins.

• Awesome Flask
  • Framework
  • Admin interface
  • Analytics
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Database
  • Database Migrations
  • Session
  • Cache
  • Data Validation
  • Email
  • i18n
  • Full-text searching
  • Rate Limiting
  • Task Queue
  • Exception tracking
  • Tracing
  • APM
  • Other SDK
  • Frontend
  • Development (Debugging/Testing/Documentation)
  • Utils
• Resources
  • Tutorials
  • Courses
  • Books
  • Slides
  • Videos
  • Built with Flask
  • Boilerplate

Framework

• Connexion - Swagger/OpenAPI First framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation and OAuth2 support.
• Flask-MongoRest - Restful API framework wrapped around MongoEngine.
• Eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
• Flask-Restless - A Flask extension for creating simple ReSTful APIs from SQLAlchemy models.
• Flask-RESTful - Simple framework for creating REST APIs.
• Flask-RestPlus - syntaxic sugar, helpers and automatically generated Swagger documentation.
• Flask-Potion - RESTful API framework for Flask and SQLAlchemy.
• Zappa - Build and deploy server-less Flask applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

Admin interface

• Flask-Admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.

Analytics

• Flask-Analytics - Analytics snippets generator extension for the Flask framework.
• Flask-Matomo - Track requests to your Flask website with Matomo. .

Authentication

• Flask-Security - Quick and simple security for Flask applications.
• Flask-Login - Flask user session management.
• Flask-User - Customizable user account management for Flask.
• Flask-HTTPAuth - Simple extension that provides Basic and Digest HTTP authentication for Flask routes.
• Flask-Praetorian - Strong, Simple, and Precise security for Flask APIs (using jwt).

Authorization

• Authlib - Authlib is an ambitious authentication library for OAuth 1, OAuth 2, OpenID clients, servers and more.
• Authomatic - Authomatic provides out of the box support for a number of providers using OAuth 1.0a (Twitter, Tumblr and more) and OAuth 2.0 (Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Google, LinkedIn, PayPal and more).
• Flask-Pundit - Extension based on Rails' Pundit gem that provides easy way to organize access control for your models.
• Flask-Dance - OAuth consumer extension for Flask, shipped with pre-set support for Facebook, GitHub, Google, etc.

Database

• Flask-MongoEngine - MongoEngine flask extension with WTF model forms support.
• Flask-SQLAlchemy - Adds SQLAlchemy support to Flask.

Database Migrations

• Flask-Migrate - SQLAlchemy database migrations for Flask applications using Alembic.

Session

• Flask-Session - Server side session extension for Flask.

Cache

• Flask-Caching - Adds easy cache support to Flask.
• flask-heroku-cacheify - Automatic Flask cache configuration on Heroku.

Data Validation

• Flask-WTF - Simple integration of Flask and WTForms, including CSRF, file upload and Recaptcha integration.

Email

• Flask-Mail - Flask-Mail adds SMTP mail sending to your Flask applications.

i18n

• flask-babel - i18n and l10n support for Flask based on Babel and pytz.

Full-text searching

• SQLAlchemy-Searchable - Full-text searching for Flask-SQLAlchemy (Postgres only).
• flask_msearch - Full text search for flask with whoosh.

Rate Limiting

• Flask-Limiter - Flask-Limiter provides rate limiting features to flask routes.

Task Queue

• Flask-Dramatiq - dramatiq integration for Flask applications.
• huey - a little task queue for python.
• Flask-RQ - RQ (Redis Queue) integration for Flask applications.
• celery - Distributed Task Queue.

Exception tracking

• sentry-sdk - Python client for Sentry.
• airbrake-python - Python client for Airbrake.

Tracing

• flask-zipkin - Distributed tracing with Zipkin.
• Flask-OpenTracing - Distributed tracing with OpenTracing.

APM

• elastic-apm - Elastic APM agent for Python.

Other SDK

• Flask-GoogleMaps - Build and embed google maps in your Flask templates.
• Flask-Gravatar - Small and simple gravatar usage in Flask.
• Flask-Pusher - Pusher integration for Flask.
• Flask-Azure-Storage - Flask extension that provides integration with Azure Storage.

Frontend

• Flask-CORS - A Flask extension for handling Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), making cross-origin AJAX possible.
• flask-assets - Flask webassets integration.
• flask-s3 - Seamlessly serve your static assets of your Flask app from Amazon S3.
• Flask-SSLify - Force SSL on your Flask app.
• Flask-HTMLmin - Flask html minifier.

Development (Debugging/Testing/Documentation)

• Flasgger - Create API documentation for Flask views using Swagger 2.0 specs.
• flask-apispec - simple self-documenting APIs with flask.
• flask2postman - Generate a Postman collection from your Flask application.
• flask_profiler - endpoint analyzer/profiler for Flask.
• Flask-DebugToolbar - A port of the django debug toolbar to flask.
• flask-debug-toolbar-mongo - MongoDB panel for the Flask Debug Toolbar.
• Flask-Testing - Unittest extensions for Flask.
• pytest-flask - A set of pytest fixtures to test Flask applications.
• Flask-MonitoringDashboard - Automatically monitor the evolving performance of Flask/Python web services.
• nplusone - Auto-detect n+1 queries with Flask and SQLAlchemy.
• connexion - Swagger/OpenAPI First framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation & OAuth2 support.

Utils

• flask-marshmallow Flask + marshmallow for beautiful APIs.
• flask-jsonrpc - A basic JSON-RPC implementation for your Flask-powered sites.
• Flask-Bcrypt - Flask-Bcrypt is a Flask extension that provides bcrypt hashing utilities for your application.
• Mixer - Mixer is application to generate instances of Django or SQLAlchemy models.
• Flask-FeatureFlags - A Flask extension that enables or disables features based on configuration.
• Flask-Reggie - Regex Converter for Flask URL Routes.
• Flask-SocketIO - Socket.IO integration for Flask applications.
• Flask-Moment - Formatting of dates and times in Flask templates using moment.js.
• Flask-Paginate - Pagination support for Flask.
• Flask-graphql - Adds GraphQL support to your Flask application.

Resources

Tutorials

• How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing (by NPR).
• Building websites in Python with Flask.
• The Flask Mega-Tutorial.
• Implementing a RESTful Web API with Python & Flask.
• Discover Flask - Full Stack Web Development with Flask.
• Flaskr - Intro to Flask, Test Driven Development, and jQuery.

Courses

• Full Stack Foundations.
• Designing RESTful APIs.

Books

• Explore Flask.
• Flask Web Development.
• Real Python.
• Learning Flask Framework.
• Flask Blueprints.
• Flask Framework Cookbook.
• Mastering Flask.
• Building Web Applications with Flask.

Slides

• Creating beautiful REST APIs with Flask.
• Advanced Flask Patterns.
• Flasky Goodness.
• Domain Driven Design (... with Flask).
• In Flask we Trust.

Videos

• PyVideo.
• Practical Flask Web Development Tutorials.

Built with Flask

• zmusic-ng - ZX2C4 Music provides a web interface for playing and downloading music files using metadata.
• GuitarFan - guitar tab.
• June - python-china.org
• Zerqu - ZERQU is a content-focused API-based platform. eg: Python-China.
• motiky
• missing - a list service called missing.
• thenewsmeme.com
• overholt - Example Flask application illustrating common practices.
• pypress - flask team blog.
• thepast.me
• redispapa - another redis monitor by using flask, angular, socket.io.
• flaskblog - a simple blog system based on flask.
• cleanblog - a clean blog system based on flask and mongoengine.
• Quokka CMS - CMS made with Flask and MongoDB.
• chat - a live chat built with python (flask + gevent + apscheduler) + redis.
• chatapp - Flask and Angular.js Chat Application using Socket.io.
• Frozen-Flask - Freezes a Flask application into a set of static files.
• mcflyin - A small timeseries transformation API built on Flask and Pandas.
• Skylines - Live tracking, flight database and competition framework.
• airflow - Airflow is a system to programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines.
• timesketch - Collaborative forensics timeline analysis.
• changes - A dashboard for your code. A build system.
• security_monkey - monitors policy changes and alerts on insecure configurations in an AWS account.
• securedrop- an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.
• sync_engine - IMAP/SMTP sync system with modern APIs.
• cleansweep - Volunteer & Campaign Management System.
• indico - a general-purpose event management web-based solution. It includes a full-blown conference organization workflow as well as tools for meeting management and room booking. It provides as well integration with video-conferencing solutions.
• flaskbb - A classic Forum Software in Python using Flask.
• [PythonBuddy] (https://github.com/ethanchewy/PythonBuddy) - Online Python Editor With Live Syntax Checking and Execution.

Boilerplate

• fbone.
• cookiecutter-flask.
• Flask-Foundation.
• flask-rest-template.
• gae-init - Flask boilerplate running on Google App Engine.
• Flask-AppBuilder - Simple and rapid application builder framework, built on top of Flask. includes detailed security, auto form generation, google charts and much more.