https://github.com/robertoprevato/flask-three-template

Project template for Python Flask three-tier web applications
https://github.com/robertoprevato/flask-three-template

Last synced: 1 day ago
JSON representation

Project template for Python Flask three-tier web applications

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/robertoprevato/flask-three-template
• Owner: RobertoPrevato
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-11-02T19:21:56.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-03-01T07:07:18.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-07T22:12:17.487Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 623 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

          
# Flask-three-template

Project template for Python Flask three-tier web applications.



## Features

* Project skeleton ready to use, to start a three tier web application using Flask for its presentation layer.

* Localization strategy, using Flask-Babel.

* Authentication and authorization strategies, including anonymous authentication.

* Antiforgery token validation strategy (session based, dual token technique; for AJAX requests and regular form posts)

* Login mechanism protected against brute forcing (stores login attempts in DB).

* DB based sessions strategy.

* MongoDB collections for accounts, sessions, login attempts.

* Example files for production deployment using Nginx and uWSGI servers.

* Skeleton for data access layers for MongoDB.

* Skeleton for unit testing.

* Custom error pages.

* Application db logger, to store and retrieve messages and exceptions logs in database

## Branches

* [empty-project](https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/flask-three-template/tree/empty-project): empty template without any authentication strategy.

* [master](https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/flask-three-template/tree/master): template with custom authentication and authorization strategy.

* [spa-humbular](https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/flask-three-template/tree/spa-humbular): template with Humbular Single Page Application strategy.

* [spa-aurelia](https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/flask-three-template/tree/spa-aurelia): Single Page Application template using Aurelia framework.

## How to prepare the environment

* Python.

* [Flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/).

* [Flask-Babel](https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Babel/).

* pymongo.

* pycrypto.

Refer to the [dedicated wiki page](https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/flask-three-template/wiki/Preparing-the-environment), for instructions about how to prepare the environment and install the dependencies.

## Servers setup

* Basic settings file for Nginx.

* Settings file for uWSGI.

* Development server ready to use: Flask itself.

## Grunt integration

* JavaScript bundling and minification strategy.

* LESS compilation.

## CRUD architecture

The branch spa-humbular includes a strategy to implement SPA administrative sides with CRUD functionalities.

As a working example, the user management feature has been used.

![crud-architecture](http://ugrose.com/content/demos/humbular/images/crud-architecture.gif)

For detailed information, refer to the [dedicated wiki page](https://github.com/RobertoPrevato/flask-three-template/wiki/CRUD-architecture-for-SPA).