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Introduction

This extension facilitates the application of this design pattern in Flask

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Designed to allow developers to implement the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern in Flask applications with the help of this extension.

Install MVC Flask using pip:

$ pip install mvc_flask

Install MVC Flask using poetry:

$ poetry add mvc_flask

Now, let's get started:

from flask import Flask
from mvc_flask import FlaskMVC
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy

db = SQLAlchemy()

def create_app():
    app = Flask(__name__)
    app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///blog.db'

    # registering extensions
    FlaskMVC(app)
    db.init_app(app)

    return app

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Features

MVC Flask builds on provides the best architecture experience for Flask, and gives you:

  • You can directories as controllers, models, and views.
  • It Supports the controllers' creation, and you can separate the logic of your application of business rules
  • You can separate routes of business rules
  • You can use the before_action to execute a specific code
  • You can integrate with other extensions of Flask, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-Migrate, etc.

Dependencies

MVC Flask just depends on the Flask extensions to working and requires Python >=3.8.0,<4.0.0.