Fun With The Arduino Esplora: A Digital Picture Frame

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 8 years ago in Blogs

With this article I kick off my series on the Arduino Esplora board. Today's project is a nice (and cheap!) little digital picture frame that uses the Esplora's TFT Screen add-on.

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Using JavaScript-style async promises in Python

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 5 days ago in Blogs

When you compare Python and JavaScript async code, you may think they are very much alike, since both use the async/await pattern. In reality, there is a significant difference between the two, which in my opinion, makes the JavaScript async...

Add a WebSocket Route to your Flask 2.x Application

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 4 weeks ago in Blogs

The WebSocket protocol was standardized 10 years ago (in 2011, can you believe it?) so I'm sure for many of it you does not need an introduction. But in case you are not familiar with it, WebSocket is an extension...

Accept Credit Card Payments in Flask with Stripe Checkout

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 2 months ago in Blogs

In this article I'm going to show you how to implement an order page for your Flask application that you can use to sell products or services online. The solution I'm going to present to you uses Stripe Checkout, a...

Optimizing Slow SQL Queries

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 3 months ago in Blogs

Most database problems go unnoticed during development, because we tend to code our applications using small datasets. It is when the application has been on production for some time that database performance issues start to appear, causing parts of the...

How to Write Unit Tests in Python, Part 3: Web Applications

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 4 months ago in Blogs

This is the third part in my series about unit testing Python applications. In this article I'm going to show you some of the techniques I use when I work with Python web applications. For the examples in this article...

Flask Mega-Tutorial Update: Flask 2.0 and more!

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 5 months ago in Blogs

I'm excited to share that I've completed a revision of the Flask Mega-Tutorial to keep it in line with new releases of Flask, Python and third-party dependencies. To celebrate this update, you can purchase the paid version of this course...

Beautiful Interactive Tables for your Flask Templates

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 5 months ago in Blogs

Rendering a table with data in a Flask template is a relatively simple task when the table is short, but can be incredibly hard for larger tables that require features such as sorting, pagination and searching. In this article I'm...

How to Dockerize a React + Flask Project

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 6 months ago in Blogs

This is the fourth article in my series about working with a combined Flask and React project. In this part I'm going to cover how to deploy the application in Docker containers.

Dynamically Update Your Flask Web Pages Using Turbo-Flask

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 7 months ago in Blogs

How can you update a part of a web page dynamically, without the user having to hit the refresh button on the browser? This is a question that is frequently asked on the Internet. If you have some knowledge of...

How to Write Unit Tests in Python, Part 2: Game of Life

From blog.miguelgrinberg.com 8 months ago in Blogs

This is the second part of my series on unit testing Python applications. In this article I will introduce you to Conway's Game of Life, an interesting simulation that plays animated patterns on a grid. My implementation of this game...