Second day with the Flask course.
Beginning to realise that Flask is not a monolithic thing, but consists of a lot of moving parts.
Looking forward to learning what they are as I progress along.
Today I learnt how to set my Flask variable, and create an environment, so that I can run Flask consistently without problems.
Miguel also teaches a simple, yet effective way to combat yak shaving.
You know, where all you want is one simple thing, but then that depends on that other thing, which reminds you that you need that third thing and the next thing you know, you’re at the zoo, shaving a yak, all so you can wax your car.
Just don’t do that other thing.
Focus on what you are doing.
If there is something you need, use a dummy. Mock something up.
This is a very real, meta lesson, that I’ll carry with me for the rest of my days.
So I learnt how to return a web page.
And that got tiring really quickly.
Which is when Miguel introduced me to templates.
And I realise why they are needed.
I created a basic template and also learnt about conditionals in the templating language, Jinja and then I called a stop to the day.
More to follow tomorrow.