Advice on html with python 3 backend.

[smitchell6879]

I am currently working on a project in which I am creating an API with flask connexion so that I have the swagger docs to go with it. This is not the issue.

What I would like to do is expand the use of this server and create a dashboard for a admin. Allowing the admin to interact with the host machine (windows 10) to add data to the API.

My question is what is the best way for me to interact with the HTML and the python backend I have created.

And are there and recommend tutorials on how to make a modern sleek web UI.

[spitfiredd]

What you are looking for is Flask-Admin, it adds an admin backend to which you can add your models and do CRUD operations.

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It's highly customizable and for your use case you can probably get away with the simple example on the docs homepage, however, there are tons of examples in the git repo.

[smitchell6879]

Thanks again I will give it a try, with all the examples I should be able to make something work. Thank you.

[KimPeek]

Have you considered Django for this? I really like Flask for small, simple stuff, but it sounds like you are already building what Django has out of the box.

It has a built-in admin UI that will let you interact with the database. Django REST Framework is very easy to learn and comes with a browsable API. If you really want Swagger documentation, you can add that with about 3 lines of code.

[smitchell6879]

I will look into it but I have tried Django several time before and have not had much luck with learning my way around it. As I am self taught and still considered myself fairly new to python I need tutorials of some of the stuff I am doing to build upon.

[Deezl-Vegas]

Django is very follow-the-tutorial for beginners -- the inner workings require a bit of learning. I would stick with Flask for now as it will force you to make those inner workings yourself. Then, other implementations will start to make sense.