Building your first Flask Application

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Building your first Flask Application
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One of the reasons many Python developers love using Flask is that the framework makes it easy to get started. It only takes about five lines of code to build a functional web application. In this chapter we're going to start from scratch and build out a Flask application and deploy it to the internet.

Here's what our application is going to look like when we're finished

By the end of these two chapters, you'll have built this Flask application
By the end of these two chapters, you'll have built this Flask application

In the next section, we're going to get started.