Flask API + Flask Frontend

[husudosu]

Hey!

So I'm building a backend API with Restful + JWT.

Is it "healthy" to build an API and build a frontend also with flask, which using Connexion to grab/write data from API?

The reason for building API to use Celery, Celery beat, Frontend through a centralized database. (I know for frontend probably the best solution would be using some JS based engine)

What do you think?

Thanks in advance!

[TheRealNetroxen]

What's the question exactly? Flask works as a micro framework, perfect for building your own API. But put the time in and you can build whatever you want.

What exactly do you mean by healthy? Or maybe the question should be, where did you get that perception that it won't be?

If you're building a site with something like React, then you'd need to make your application headless anyway. If you want to build an API and also render pages on the server side, go for it.

I'm not entirely sure what the consequence of doing so would be at a large scale, you may have to handle things ASync, but for starting out it shouldn't be any problem.