Chapter 12. Other Tips and Tricks

This book has covered almost all the areas needed to be known for the creation of a web application using Flask. Much has been covered, and you need to explore more on your own. In this final chapter, we will go through some additional recipes that can be used to add value to the application, if necessary.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Full-text search with Whoosh
  • Full-text search with Elasticsearch
  • Working with signals
  • Using caching with your application
  • E-mail support for Flask applications
  • Understanding asynchronous operations
  • Working with Celery

Introduction

In this chapter, we will first learn how to implement full-text search using Whoosh and Elasticsearch. Full-text search becomes important ...

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