General-purpose, high-level programming language supporting multiple programming paradigms.
Flask is a micro web framework for Python, based on the Werkzeug toolkit and Jinja2 template engine.
It’s recommended to keep your project inside virtual environment. Let’s install and create a new virtual environment for your project.
At first open the Terminal (press Alt
+ F1
, type Terminal and click on the black squere icon or just press Enter
). Second, create a new folder my_project
open it.
$ mkdir my_project
$ cd my_project
Let’s create a virtual environment called project_venv
which will contain Python and pip which you can use to install Flask.
$ python3 -m venv project_venv
If you want to work in the virtual environment, you have to activate it.
$ source project_venv/bin/activate
Running the virtual environment, you can install Flask.
(project_venv) $ pip install flask
That is all, you have sucessfully installed Flask in the virtual environment! Now you can start working on your project.
This is an example of how a minimal Flask application can look like.
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route("/")
def hello_world():
return "Hello World!"
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()
Assuming that you have some Flask application called foo.py
, you can run it in your activated virtual environment (see above) like this.
(project_venv) $ python3 foo.py
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/
You should see that it is running on some address, in this case 127.0.0.1. Default port for Flask applications is 5000. Open it in web browser to see your application.
When you finish your work, just deactivate the virtual environment.
(project_venv) $ deactivate