Intro to Flask Part 2
Dynamic Routes
Returning HTML from Flask
You can either return HTML as a string like so:
or use a template.
Serving Dynamic Templates & Static Files
Create static
and templates
directories so the project directory looks like so:
Rendering a Template
Flask will automatically look for template files in templates
.
Flask uses the Jinja templating engine.
To render a Jinja template, first import the render_template
function
Then instead of returning a string in the route handler, return the result of calling render_template('{templatename}.html')
.
app.py
templates/index.html
Adding a Stylesheet
Like templates, Flask will automatically look for and and serve static files in static
. So you just have to create your stylesheet file and include it in the template.
Adding Images
Add any image in the static
directory (preferably in the img
directory but you do you) and flask will serve it at /static/PATH_TO_IMAGE
.
Passing Data to Templates
app.py
templates/hello.html
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