A Flask of... HTML

For the past couple weeks, I've been tasked with building a website, pretty much from the ground up.

But like any good, lazy programmer would say: Never build something from the ground up if there's a good framework you can use! Well, micro-framework at least.

Flask is fast. After going through the tutorial on the main flash site, and the Pluralsight video, once I was done building the back end, I was able to whip up a site prototype in a day. A day!

Flask works in conjunction with CSS, HTML, and Jinja2. If you're not thrilled about working in CSS and HTML, I recommend going here to pick up some templates--I know I did.

Furthermore, you can combine all of this with some good programming practices, because Flask and Jinja2 are built in such a way to give us developers smart ways to reduce our code size and effortlessly manage scaling. Honestly, Flask was a no-brainer for me, a person who needed to customize a small website to work with my back-end API.

What's that? What about Django you say? Nah, unless I wanted to specialize in Django, which is practically a whole different job in and of itself.