Chassis is a "batteries included" boilerplate flask project to use as a quick starting point, especially for REST services.

To see how easy it is to get up and running with Flask and Chassis, check out my 10 minute live coding presentation at the Boston Python group, where I write a backend for a backbone.js TODO app: https://github.com/malicustommade/chassis-backbonetodo

• pip install cookiecutter
• cookiecutter gh:makmanalp/flask-chassis

• Clean and simple app factory model
• Self-bootstrapping virtualenv
• Separate requirements for dev and production, one pinned and the other unpinned
• Smart Makefile for common tasks
• Error tracking with Sentry/raven
• REST-y views with Flask-restful
• Flask-Cache
• Flask-DebugToolbar
• Werkzeug Profiler Middleware
• Flask-Script ./manage.py with shell already set
• Flask-SQLAlchemy
• Tests and coverage with pytest
• Factories with factory_boy and faker
• Sphinx docs with flask-style theme
• sphinxcontrib-httpdomain for REST docs

Run make dev to run the dev server. It'll install all the dependencies if it has to.

For production, you're looking for runserver.py. The app variable has what you want. Alternatively, the create_app factory could also be used.

The /conf/ directory contains configuration files. dev.py is included by default. You pass the CHASSIS_CONFIG="path/to/config.py" environment variable to pick a settings file. It's this way to make sure no one accidentally loads the dev config in production.

• Nothing here yet until release.