quart_summernote_blog_simple

A simple blog built on Quart, Summernote (WYSIWIG editor) and TinyMongo

intent:

This small program is intended to demonstrate a simple blog built on Phil Jones' Quart microframework. It wouldn't take much to flesh this out with user authentication (flask_login) and a simple administrative interface.

I first learned of Quart from a EuroPython talk by Phil Jones. There is a nice medium.com article/video of that talk (https://medium.com/@pgjones/quart-an-asgi-alternative-to-flask-53915868d220)

Quart asyncio (https://github.com/pgjones/quart)

Quart is an ASYNC superset of Flask. The project takes some of the strongest features of Armin Ronacher's Flask project and moves it into the Python 3 asynchronous realm. Porting simple Flask apps to Quart is relatively trivial, but you should look carefully at their documentation. Some of the Flask addons will work with a "monkey patch" (quart.flask_ext). See the documentation and examples for details.

Summernote - a very nice JavaScript WYSIWYG editor (https://github.com/summernote/summernote).

All the styling and support come from Bootstrap 4 using a CDN for simplicity. The page templates could be easily changed to locally served static JavaScript (JQuery) and CSS. There are many good reasons to use CDN whenever you can ;-)

TinyMongo - serves as a simple database.

I like to think of it as a SQLite local version of PyMongo (https://github.com/schapman1974/tinymongo)

The TinyMongo could be easily changed to PyMongo with a remote database. But for simplicity, we keep the files local.

The structure is simple enough to be replaced by any other sort of database/ORM, i.e. SQLAlchemy, PeeWee, etc.