Flask By Example

Expanding your web development knowledge

In this book, we focused on backend development—that done through Python or Flask. A large part of developing web applications is building a frontend that is powerful, aesthetically pleasing, and intuitive to use. Although we provided a solid grounding in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, each of these topics is big enough for its own book, and many such books exist.

JavaScript is perhaps the most important of the three. Known as the "language of the web", it has gained steadily in popularity over the last few years (although, as with all languages, it has its fair share of critics). There are many frameworks for building JavaScript-intensive web applications (so many, in fact, that their sheer number and the frequency ...