Expanding your Flask knowledge

You might expect that Flask, being a micro framework, could be covered in its entirety in a single book. However, there are some potentially very useful parts of Flask that we didn't need for any of our three projects. We'll briefly outline these here.

VirtualEnv

The first library worth mentioning is not actually Flask-specific, and if you've spent some time on Python development before, you will almost certainly come across it. VirtualEnv is a Python library that creates a virtual Python environment on your machine. It can be used in conjunction with Flask either only on your development machine or both on your development machine and server. Its main purpose is to isolate your entire Python environment into a virtual ...

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