How to Use Poetry and Understand Jinja Templating Engine
Learn Poetry for package management in Python, separating HTML from Python code using templates, and structuring projects for cleaner, more maintainable code.
Brief Summary
- Introduction to Flask Routes: Recap from the last video about creating routes in Flask.
- Managing Packages with Poetry:
- Discussed how to manage Python packages more efficiently using Poetry instead of pip.
- Demonstrated installing Poetry and setting up a project with it.
- Explained the benefits of using Poetry, such as managing dependencies in a single file.
- Separating HTML from Python Code:
- Discussed why it’s important to separate HTML from Python code for better organization.
- Demonstrated creating a ‘templates’ folder in Flask to store HTML files separately.
- Showed how to use the render_template function to link the HTML file with the Flask route.
- Practical Implementation:
- Created a basic HTML template and integrated it into a Flask project.
- Explained how to structure the project for clean and maintainable code, avoiding the mess of mixing HTML with Python.
- Running the Project:
- Showed how to run the Flask project using Poetry and confirmed that the setup works correctly by displaying the webpage in a browser.
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