Anthony Herbert

All in all, an excellent course with some caveats: - You must be comfortable with Python. - You should have a rough idea of how a web app behaves. Flask is a microframework that allows you to create the famous Hello World! app in seconds. Obviously, that's useless, and you should start adding Database connections, security, roles, blueprints, administration, etc. Luckily, the Flask ecosystem has several packages to simplify those processes, and the course gives a good overview of the most common and useful ones. Some lessons, besides the ones already marked as old, are now outdated. AFAIK, Flask-User, Flask-Restless, and Flask-Uploads are no longer maintained, as well as some minor packages used in the examples (Flask now has a CLI interface built-in). But as long as you have the requirements.txt file, you can replicate everything. As with any course, play around with the code to grasp the concepts before moving forward. Some chapters have a nice intro video, and some do not, which is a pity since it's handy to have an overview of what we want to achieve. I believe it's worth every cent, and with some minor updates (e.g., restless API, swagger, Docker, and SQLModel), it would deserve a full five stars. Thanks Anthony.
- Review by Andrea Dalseno on The Ultimate Flask Course