Development - Webapp

Flask

The Skyline Webapp has arguably grown to the point were Flask may no longer necessarily by the best choice for the frontend UI any more. For a number of reasons, such as:

• The frontend UI functionality is going to grow, with the addition of other things requiring more visualizations.
• A high-level Python Web framework like Django may be more appropriate in the long run.

The reasons for sticking with Flask at this point are:

• Because Flask is pretty cool.
• It is a microframework not a full blown web framework.
• It is probably simpler.
• Therefore, it keeps more focus at the “doing stuff” with Skyline, other and Python side of the equation for now, rather than at writing a new web UI with Django and porting the current stuff to Django.
• A fair bit of time has been spent adding new things with Flask.
• With gunicorn, Flask can.
• For now it is more than good enough.
• web development, one drop at a time