The New And Improved Flask Mega-Tutorial Paperback – December 7, 2017

This is my new favorite software book - not just because the material is presented really well but because the author takes the reader on a journey from original concept to a robust, cloud-deployable application.One of the criticisms that I've seen here is that the book explains an approach and later changes that approach as new features are added. I think that misses the point of this book. The author has documented how he learned Flask by writing this application and is exposing the process and rationale for adding new capabilities.If you just want the final answer start reading about 3/4 of the way through the book. But I wouldn't recommend that.In Chapter 1 Mr. Grinberg suggests working through the examples as you go, but I'd suggest that it's more effective to do a quick read of the book from start to finish without working through the exercises to understand the flow of the book and the whole process. Then go back and work the examples, starting at a point where you feel comfortable and going until you've learned as much as you think you need. I highly recommend getting to the point where you can deploy the app on Heroku (Ch. 18).The Github repo with links for each Chapter is really cool, At each Chapter the link points to the version of the app at that point, with features being added chapter by chapter.My only disappointment was the ending. I think an epilogue where Mr. Ginberg could have pointed to where this project could go next or where the state of the art is heading would have been really good. Reading the last page was like speeding off a cliff. Maybe in the next edition, Mr. Ginberg?

As others have already said - worth every penny. I just ordered and received this (books says it was printed the day I ordered it - amazing). I had been going through internet tutorials and really struggling. This book presents things in a way that I can make sense of. You need to know a little to follow along, but not much. One of the best technical books I have used (probably because it is made to seem not technical). It is nice to have the paper copy to make notes on as well.

There are three reasons why this is an awesome example of a "follow me" book. 1) The example project used in the book is actually something you can use in the real world. A basic web portal with login/logout, user profiles, etc. is a perfect example. 2) All the steps are clearly explained and the author doesn't "assume" you know something. 3) All of the book is useful from first page to last. From the first line of code, to deploying to the cloud, all useful, all relevant, all applies to "today".

This book is very well written. I was a complete beginner to flask, but found the tutorial easy to follow. I was able to create my own website, by following a selection of the chapters.This tutorial is explained well enough that a beginner to flask can follow it, but it also contains enough information and topics to be useful to more advanced flask users, as well.

I really liked this first half of this book, very easy to follow along and you learn alot quickly. But then halfway through, you pretty much get told everything you're doing is wrong, and there's a better way to do it, but he only spends about 3-4 pages explaining it (with no details.) You do have the ability to go download the example code, but when you've already spent this much time following the book, it's a huge let down.

Excellent resource. This is available for free on the author's blog, and as others have stated this is just a printout. However it's great to have in physical book form, and the information is so well done that I think it's worth buying.

Trying to learn how to deploy machine learning models. Good book to use as a starting point.

hands on, one of the best books to learn Flask and software development techniques in general.

This book is faithful to its title: a large tutorial on Python web-framework Flask. It reads very well, it is very progressive, explanations are neat, it is project oriented. BUT (this is the caveat) it contains NO index. It may depend on the reader, but I, as a reader and day-to-day user, cannot use a book that has no index. It has a very detailled table of contents, it is very well-composed, but is has no alphabetical index! With a detailled alphabetical index, I would have given this book a five stars. But not having an index is so big a blunder...

This books has good material inside but a dubious methodology. Why? After quite a while Miguel decides to reshape everything to fit to a translate functionality. You do the job, you redo almost every line of code and that’s it, ok? No, he will take you to a next redo it all thing to fit bootstrap. For the second time you go forward and get the job done, after all, bootstrap is so cool and Miguel gives you many brotherhood advices.. then, you turn some pages and Miguel tells you to redo everything for the third time because of better development layout. This is the point that you close the book and start think that Miguel is not your dude anymore but a guy with good intentions and a bad methodology. So - from a reader to another - if you wanna try this book read everything first and only after chapter 19/20 put your hands to get the job done. Be advised that this book has nothing different from online material for free on Miguel’s tutorial microblog post. Good luck. Be patient.

This is a worthwhile book to get. It will take you through an application slowly with github links to the code so you can't get lost. Miguel is a smart guy and has a bunch of very useful resources (youtube and his website). I definitely recommend it if you want to get started in a flask and build something practical to boost your confidence. I eventually transitioned to REACT for front end then used flask just for the rest api. But it is still good to learn.

If you like to learn from books, working on a single large project from beginning to end, this is a great way to learn about the back end programming for a web app using Flask and Python.The "full stack" of libraries and packages and other parts used in modern web development can be intimidating: where do you start? This book provides a step by step guide. You need to route web URLs to back end code, here's how. You'll need a database, here's how. You need user logins, here's how. You need some CSS styling, here's how. And not just "how" as in the code to type, but what some of the alternatives are, good design principles, what traps to avoid, and how to generalise these to other apps.Although it's primarily about Flask and Python, there is also some coverage of Bootstrap CSS which I found very useful and even a little JavaScript, just enough to give you some idea of where that fits into back end development

Bought this with his other book. If your considering between the two, get both. There are somethings covered in this that are not covered in the other, and vice versa.