A microtemplate for a microframework.

This is a minimalist's production-ready Flask project template:

• no external dependencies except for Flask and pytest
• doesn't impose any choices of third-party libraries
• project set-up as per Flask documentation, including things like logging and config, testing and packaging
• optional and off by deafult: flake8, black and mypy configuration
• optional: Poetry build tool, setuptools by defualt
• preserves the pure joy of developing with Flask!

Now upgraded to Flask 3 !

If you look for the Flask 2 version, check out the flask2 branch. It is not actively maintained but is tested and known to work with the latest Flask 2 release (2.3.3 as of the time of this writing).

Looking for a feature-complete, yet minimalistic web app starter kit? Check out cookicutter-flask-boring.

Install cookiecutter:

pip install --user cookiecutter

Create your application from this template:

cookiecutter https://github.com/candidtim/cookiecutter-flask-minimal.git

All set! Run the application:

cd yourapplication
make run

And then open it at http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Included:

• minimal production-ready Flask application: an application factory, and a single blueprint with a sample static resource, template and an index view, packaged as as per Larger Applications

• setuptools (or Poetry) configuration to package and release the application, as well as to develop locally

  • side note: Poetry is a popular build tool and it provides a well-structured and well-documented development environment; but, this also means that the generated project will not explain or document its usage and you would need to refer to the Poetry documentation

• configuration system, as per Configuration Handling

• basic Logging configuration

• sample test and testing set-up, as per Testing Flask Applications

• optional (and off by deafult) configuration for flake8, black and mypy

• Makefile with a few typical tasks automated (see generated README for details)

Not included:

• everything else: there is no SQLAlchemy, or MongoKit, or Bootstrap CSS, or React, or whatever else; it is up to you to chose how to implement your application; Patterns for Flask documents well how to easily add these if necessary

• there are no "sample" features or examples of how to use Flask; this template is not intended as a tutorial, but as a well-configured starting point for a new implementation; refer to the Flask documentation to learn Flask if necessary

• no choice on how to deploy the application is made, no WSGI container is chosen; see Deploying to Production for the options most suitable for your infrastructure

... are welcome! Feel free to create a pull request to fix bugs or keep up to date.

If you think some additional feature is indispensable, feel free to create an issue or a pull request, but bare in mind that the goal of this template is to stay a "minimal" one. If you would like to add a feature, maybe best way to do so is to make it optional and off by default then. One can use cookiecutter's choice variables, and, ultimately, hooks, in order to create an optional feature.

If you do a change, use make test from root directory to test the updated template.

Configuration of this entire project template is based on Flask documentation. Please, note however, that this template is not guaranteed to follow Flask documentation precisely.