I've been using Flask for my current project and I absolutely love it.
The project is a web interface for our library's digital archives (mostly audio and video assets, but also images and print documents). Version 1 of the project used php and mysql for the front end with python scripts handling the transcoding and metadata handling on the back end. For a variety of reasons the project got bloated to the point of being unmanageable. I decided I wanted a fresh start with a python framework and considered all the ones mentioned here.
I went with Flask because I wanted to leave the existing database structure in place and I wanted to err on the side of the framework doing too little instead of too much.
As a non-programmer (my job title says "audio engineer"), Flask was simple enough to understand, but did enough to make my life considerably easier. My one gripe is I think Flask-Login still has room for improvement, at least in terms of documentation. I've gotten it working good enough, but I still don't understand how credentials are passed around my application.
I'm sure other frameworks would have also gotten me to where I needed to be, but after working with Flask for a month or so, I'm not immediately reaching for something else.
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I've been using Flask for my current project and I absolutely love it.
The project is a web interface for our library's digital archives (mostly audio and video assets, but also images and print documents). Version 1 of the project used php and mysql for the front end with python scripts handling the transcoding and metadata handling on the back end. For a variety of reasons the project got bloated to the point of being unmanageable. I decided I wanted a fresh start with a python framework and considered all the ones mentioned here.
I went with Flask because I wanted to leave the existing database structure in place and I wanted to err on the side of the framework doing too little instead of too much.
As a non-programmer (my job title says "audio engineer"), Flask was simple enough to understand, but did enough to make my life considerably easier. My one gripe is I think Flask-Login still has room for improvement, at least in terms of documentation. I've gotten it working good enough, but I still don't understand how credentials are passed around my application.
I'm sure other frameworks would have also gotten me to where I needed to be, but after working with Flask for a month or so, I'm not immediately reaching for something else.