• Removed alembic from the codebase. You can install by yourself.
• Removed SQLAlchemy extensions to avoid unnecessary complexity in the blueprint.
• Added .env support for the application config with from_prefixed_env. Check app.py for the details.
  • Access FLASK_MY_CONFIG_PROP as app.config.get("MY_CONFIG_PROP").
  • Priorities: .env > config/{env}.py > instance/config.py. Instance folder config is top priority.
• SQLAlchemy 2 support
• Added Python Typing
• Moved to Python 3.11

• Predefined basic structure, so you'll end up with a clean architecture.
• Database support via SQLAlchemy. However, you can skip database setup and use Flask-Backbone without the database. I also do not use Flask-SQLAlchemy, but you can.
• Development/Production/You own configs with instance_relative_config.
• Cache support via flask_caching. Setup easily with configuration.
• Flask-Debug
• Sentry support. Just add your DSN, and you're good to go.
• Jinja filters and custom variables.
• Designed to be blueprint-first. Keep your structure clean and steady with blueprints. Everything is a blueprint. Your future self will thank you.
• Interactive commands to create your next blueprint. Define your blueprint skeletons to speed up your development. To create your next blueprint simply run flask app create-blueprint. It's up to you and you can completely ignore or remove this part and everything will work perfectly fine.
• Initial setup with a configuration script.
• WSGI config

Note: Tested with Python 3.11

1 — Clone flask-backbone.

git clone https://github.com/abstractkitchen/flask-backbone.git .

2 — As a rule of thumb, make sure that you use a virtual environment. For example python3 -m venv pythonenv. This will create an environment in the folder pythonenv. I prefer to name my python environment as a pythonenv, because it's more descriptive.

python3 -m venv pythonenv

. pythonenv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

3 — Launch configure.py. It will ask you some question about your future setup. python configure.py

This utility will create: .env and instance/config.py.

Please read this article. You'll learn more details about the boilerplate and Flask.

Read about usage on my website.

• visit abstractkitchen.com
• drop me a line: [email protected]
• connect with me on reddit

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