Apr 27, 2021

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How to Create and Run a Flask App

This is a brief introduction to creating and running a Flask app, the use of HTML templates and how to create multi-page web apps using Flask routes.

Flask is a web application micro-framework which means it is a very lightweight library for developing web apps. Creating your first Flask app is easy but first you will need to install it with pip or conda, for example:

pip3 install flask

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