Ask HN: Open-source apps built with Flask (Python)?

11 points·chishaku··7 comments

Does anyone know of any open-source complex/large applications built with Flask[0]?

[0]:http://flask.pocoo.org/

We're building Inbox, an app to develop services on top of email, using Flask and SQLAlchemy: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox.

Hasjob[0] job board is built entirely on Flask.. Available in Github [1]

[0]https://hasjob.co/ [1]https://github.com/hasgeek/hasjob

I think the newer versios of the Sage Notebook use Flask, or at least there was some effort to move over to Flask sometime back. Perhaps also the Sage Math Cloud is using it.

However the complexity/size of Sage has little to do with Flask.

AFAIK the docker registry is built on top of Flask.

https://github.com/docker/docker-registry

In the process of building one, documenting it out http://discoverflask.com.

Cheers!

I guess youll find less of complex/large applications built with a tool with specific purpose to be minimal and simple.

If anything, Flask is used as part of something larger, but its then not really complex, as that is not a goal for anyone sane, it would be a mistake. And noone is going to flaunt around their mistakes.

You should look for usable applications. And then you're looking at problem domain, will you find an audio software system built using Flask? I hope not. Will you find a "web content management system"? Yes there are some.

Reddit is a good example of a large application running on a minimal framework (web.py). I've only used Flask myself.

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