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Re: Preview of "Explore Flask" Book

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Post by aezell » Mon, Dec 02, 2013, 5:28 PM UTC

rpicard wrote: post #9

aezell wrote: post #6

I love this. I think it would be useful to move the debugging chapter much earlier in the book. Presumably, new users of Flask will encounter the (pretty awesome) Werkzeug error page as they move through the book. It might work well if a debugging chapter had exposed them to a little bit of how to interpret and use that tool. I'm sure there's a lot more about debugging to cover so maybe splitting things up makes sens…

I hadn't thought of that, but it does make sense. I've added in issue to the repo: https://github.com/rpicard/explore-flask/issues/16

Great. I bought a copy and will be following along on your progress. I'll be sure to use issues and pull requests for any other suggestions/fixes I might stumble across.

Re: Preview of "Explore Flask" Book

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Post by justinsteele » Mon, Dec 02, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

kbar13 wrote: post #2

I'm planning on getting it for free, and if it's useful, probably drop like 5-10 dollars on it. Looking forward to reading!

I did $4 up front, justified in my mind for "effort", and then I'll be doing the same as you (giving after if it's useful).

Re: Preview of "Explore Flask" Book

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Post by BerislavLopac » Mon, Dec 02, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

Any plans for other formats besides PDF?

Re: Preview of "Explore Flask" Book

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Post by rpicard » Mon, Dec 02, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

BerislavLopac wrote: post #13

Any plans for other formats besides PDF?

The plan right now is to use PDF for the pre-release versions and start building for other formats on 1.0.

I've considered doing an HTML version, but I haven't put a ton of thought into it.

Re: Preview of "Explore Flask" Book

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Post by caseydurfee » Mon, Dec 02, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

jdotjdot wrote: post #5

rpicard wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's exactly what I'm hoping for. If you don't find it useful it would be amazing of you to contribute some feedback, even if it's just letting me know how you felt.

That is exactly my plan as well. Glad there's finally a book out there on Flask. Without having seen it yet, one thing I'd love to see is "Flask for recovering Djangonauts" or something similar, in addition to how to use Flask at scale. Basically, best practices, advice, and some good libraries for someone who doesn't want ALL the batteries included in their framework, but also would prefer some more reliability than…

That's a good idea. I think a lot of people have that trepidation about switching to flask. Just a quick "instead of this in django, use this in flask" section would go a long way.

I think there's a great book to be written about scaling codebases that started out as monolithic MVC frameworks (Django, Rails, Struts, etc.) I find Flask's design is heavily informed by the problems that monolithic frameworks create, so it would be a great case study, but it's totally out of scope for an intro to flask, though.