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Posted on Oct 2, 2022 • Edited on May 7 • Originally published at app-generator.dev

(VIDEO) Flask API Generator and View - Free Product

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Hello coders!

The video material mentioned in this article explains how to interact with a Flask-generated API using the API view, a simple page that allows users to add, edit, and remove items. The product enhanced with this feature, Soft UI Dashboard, can be downloaded from the App Generator platform and used in production, commercial projects, or e-learning activities.

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👉 Flask Soft UI Dashboard - Product page
👉 Flask Soft UI Dashboard - LIVE Demo

Getting Started with Flask

Flask is a Python-based web framework that emphasizes flexibility and minimalism. It provides essential components for web development while allowing developers to choose and integrate additional tools and libraries as needed, making it suitable for both small projects and large applications.

Here are the key points for Flask:

Lightweight and Flexible
WSGI Compliant
Extensive Extension Ecosystem
Built-in Tools: Development Server, Debugger

Flask’s extensive ecosystem of extensions allows developers to add complex functionalities like database integration, form validation, and authentication with minimal effort, enhancing its capability to handle enterprise-level applications.

Video transcript (all presentation steps)

✅ Access the product page
✅ Access the public repository
✅ Clone project using GIT
✅ Open-project using VsCode
✅ Start the project using Docker
✅ Interact with the API View
✅ Edit, create and delete items
✅ Access the Generated API in the browser

The product can be started locally without much effort via the Docker setup shipped with the sources. For those that use Docker on their workstation, here are the steps:

👉 Step #1 - Download the code from the GH repository (using GIT)

$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/flask-soft-ui-dashboard.git
$ cd flask-soft-ui-dashboard

👉 Step #2 - Start the APP in Docker

$ docker-compose up --build

Visit http://localhost:5085 in your browser. The app should be up & running and the API View can be used after we create a new account and authenticate:

Flask API Generator - Create Items popup

The design for this starter is provided by Creative-Tim, a well-known design agency, and multi-technology marketplace. More information about this KIT can be found below.

✨ Soft UI Dashboard

Soft UI Dashboard is built with over 70 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining. All components can take variations in color, that you can easily modify using SASS files and classes.

👉 Soft UI Dashboard - product page (template version)
👉 Soft UI Dashboard - LIVE demo (template version)

This Free Bootstrap 5 Dashboard is coming with prebuilt design blocks, so the development process is seamless, switching from our pages to the real website is very easy to be done.