Follow my whole plodding, Flask journey here. Crashed and burned even harder today. Tried to retrace my steps and did all the exercises again. I reached, once more, all the way upto the forms chapter and it just does not work. Now it won’t even display my login page. Was it worth doing? Oh yes. I gained a much better understanding of how Flask works, of what is required where. Will work once more at the login page tomorrow. ...
Follow my whole plodding flask journey here.. Am still stuck at where I was yesterday. But made a tiny bit of progress. Yesterday, it would not even submit the form. And now I got it to do that. How? I had forgotten to close the form tag. Now while I see that it is posting perfectly in the terminal, I cannot get it to reply with a message saying that I indeed have logged in. ...
Follow my whole plodding journey here. Wrote a basic login form today. Short story short, it shows up, but it does not respond like Miguel shows in the course. It justs sits there … staring back at me … like an obstinate goat. Will go spelunking into what I could have done wrong, tomorrow. Learnt about adding routes and creating views and making templates. Thoroughly confused though. While I am dumbly following instructions right now, what I don’t get, is what do I need to write first? It all seems very circular to me. What comes first? The route, the form, the template, the chicken or the egg? ...
Continuing the Flask course. Learnt about seperation of concerns today. To me that means that I should try to keep related things together and disparate stuff apart. Case in point, we1 created a seperate file config.py to store the variables about the program in. And then to kind of secure it even more, instead of hardcoding the password in the file, it now looks for an environment variable, which I need to set before running the program. Another example was when we created a seperate file to process input (for our logins) and then put all the login, password etc. fields in there. This feels good. Feels like I am learning best practices and good habits already. ...
Continuing with the Flask course. Today I learnt about how to loop, using Jinja loop blocks. The syntax is slowly becoming clear to me. Everything python related in enclosed is {% … %} blocks, except for variables which use their own {{ … }} syntax. What I am still confused on is the relationship between the various files, I am writing. There is html and then there are templates and there are python files themselves. Hopefully that will get clearer in the days to come. My naïve understanding, right now, is ...
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. ...