I’ve not posted in a while, but I’ve still been busy. Lately I’ve been toying with the Flask framework. It claims to be a “micro-framework” that doesn’t prescribe too much and accomodates a more open-ended approach for developers. It does a bit of heavy lifting with routes and templating, but I’ve not had much of a steep learning curve in terms of having to learn the “Flask way of doing things”. Compared to other widely used webDev frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Django, Flask is, at the moment, fairly straightforward to get your head around.

For example, it doesn’t force us to use abstracted data models. You are welcome to do that via extensions such as the awesome SQL Alchemy, but if you want to tie in directly to your database you can install a bit of middleware or, in the case of SQLite, just start writing CRUD methods with your own SQL. SQL Alchemy is well worth checking out though if you’re into freedom of choice and flexibility.