What is Flask-Admin?

Post by ramavarsh » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 6:19 AM UTC

hit8run wrote: post #36

I have the feeling that flask has been neglected for a while. The last release 0.10.1 was on Jun 14, 2013. The mastermind behind Flask, Armin Ronacher, is more into Rust nowadays. I once started a big codebase on Flask and had to move away from it because of some really strange bugs and bad interplay of officially approved packages. The idea behind Flask is nice and there are great plugins out there like Flask-Admin…

Agree. Its been 2 years since the last flask release, 1 year since last jinja2 release, as an exception werkzeug had a release 3 months back. But, if we look at pull requests and commits, there has been continuous development in all the repos with new maintainers - https://github.com/pocoo/metaflask

Unlike fullstack frameworks, Flask being a minimalistic framework, needs very little changes to the core, as long as the extensions fill in the gaps.

But still the new commits to the core need to be packaged and released as stable features/fixes. Hope Armin and new maintainers understand importance of releases.

Anyway, great framework.

Post by bayesianhorse » Tue, Jun 23, 2015, 6:53 AM UTC

yen223 wrote: post #39

bayesianhorse wrote: post #37

I'm still more in favor of Django. There is more to learn about it, but almost all Flask projects that get beyond the weekend-project stage end up reimplementing stuff that is in Django, or working around that lack. The interplay between ORM, migrations, admin, CRUD, API, Forms, etc is just beautiful. Doing that with SQLAlchemy and the like is possible, but may create a bigger mess than starting out with a slightly l…

When using Flask, I like the fact that for form handling with an ORM, there's a flask-wtforms plugin, a wtforms-sqlalchemy plugin, and a flask-sqlalchemy plugin. This is part of the reason why I'm sticking with Django.

When using all these plugins, how is that better than using an integrated framework? I always thought the point of flask is that it is "lighter".

Re: What is Flask-Admin?

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