Service
Flask application factory initialized successfully.
Backend Status
Beasts Flask Backend
The backend is online. This page is the human-readable root status page for the Flask server. API consumers should use the JSON endpoint shown below.
Port
8425
Health JSON
/api/health
Current Status
Running
{
"message": "Flask backend is running",
"status": "ok",
"port": "8425"
}
Python Home Page
Python Development
- Python 3.12 is used for most backend PBL, while HTML, CSS, and JavaScript support frontend work.
- Visual Studio Code is the primary editor and IDE for student developers.
- GitHub is used to manage code changes, branches, pull requests, issues, and collaboration flow.
- DevOps matters: Git, Linux, Bash, Python packages, and Docker should be part of a backend developer's working toolkit.
- Flask APIs and microservices are a core skill, including building and consuming RESTful APIs.
Flask Development
What is Flask? How do I start web development?
- Flask Framework is a popular Python web application framework for building lightweight services and web apps.
- Blueprints help organize complexity by moving features into independent files and directories.
- HTML with Bootstrap is a practical way to build useful pages quickly without writing all CSS from scratch.
- Jinja2 is Flask's server-side template engine and integrates HTML rendering directly with Python data.
Backend and Persistence
How do you manage persistent data with Python?
- Databases provide persistent data storage so applications can keep and retrieve information between runs.
- SQL stands for Structured Query Language and remains a long-running standard for accessing and manipulating databases.
- SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and ORM used to map Python models to relational data.
- Alternative databases such as Mongo, DynamoDB, and Neo4J are also relevant and have been used in recent student projects.