Awesome Flask

A curated list of awesome things related to Flask.

Flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework written in Python.

Contents

• Third-Party Extensions
• Admin
• APIs
• Auth
• Cache
• Data Validation and Serialization
• Databases
• Developer Tools
• Email
• Forms
• Full-text Search
• Security
• Task Queues
• Utils
• Resources
• Official Resources
• External Resources
• Community
• Conferences
• Meetups
• Podcasts
• Tutorials
• Courses
• Books
• Videos
• Hosting
• PaaS
• IaaS
• Serverless
• Projects
• Boilerplates
• Open Source Projects

Third-Party Extensions

Admin

• Flask-Admin - Functional admin panel that provides a user interface for managing data based on your models.

APIs

RESTful API Support

• Eve - RESTful API framework designed for human beings.
• Flask-Classful - Adds support for class-based views for setting up RESTful API route endpoints.
• Flask-MongoRest - RESTful API framework wrapped around MongoEngine.
• Flask-RESTful - Quickly build RESTful APIs.

RESTful API + Swagger/OpenAPI Documentation Support

• APIFlask - Integrates marshmallow for validation and serialization, and for OpenAPI generation with Swagger UI.
• Connexion - Open source, OpenAPI-based, REST framework built on top of Flask.
• Flasgger - OpenAPI and Swagger UI. Builds the API from Flasgger models, marshmallow models, dicts, or YAML files.
• Flask-Rebar - Combines Flask, marshmallow, and OpenAPI for robust REST services.
• Flask-RESTX - Community-driven fork of Flask-RESTPlus that makes it easy to build and document RESTful APIs with Flask.
• flask-smorest - Marshmallow's official Flask REST integration. Uses marshmallow models for request/response validation and serialization, and generates OpenAPI with Swagger UI.

Swagger/OpenAPI Documentation Support

• SAFRS: Python OpenAPI & JSON:API Framework - SAFRS, which is an acronym for SqlAlchemy Flask-Restful Swagger, is meant to help developers create self-documenting JSON APIs for SQLAlchemy database objects and relationships.

Auth

Basic Auth and Session-based (for HTML Endpoints)

• Flask-HTTPAuth - Authentication.
• Flask-Login - Account management and authentication.
• Flask Principal - Authorization.
• Flask-Security-Too - Account management, authentication, authorization.
• Flask-Session - Session managment.
• Flask-SimpleLogin - Authentication.
• Flask-User - Account management, authentication, authorization.

Curious about the differences differences between Flask-User and Flask-Security? Review the Flask-User FAQ.

JWT-based (for JSON Endpoints)

• Flask-JWT - Basic support for working with JWTs.
• Flask-JWT-Extended - Advanced support for working with JWTs.
• Flask-JWT-Router - Adds authorized routes to a Flask app.
• Flask-Praetorian - Authentication and authorization for Flask APIs.

OAuth

• Authlib - Library for building OAuth and OpenID clients and servers.
• Authomatic - Framework agnostic library for Python web applications that simplifies authentication and authorization of users via OAuth and OpenID.
• Flask-Dance - OAuth support via OAuthLib.