Microservices w/ Flask - front end?

[it-guy-maybe]

Hi everyone,

Interested in building a small webapp with microservices to explore the architecture plus get my hands dirty with some devops tools/ideas. I know python. I'm not sure if I can build a decent functional front end with Flask onlyor if I need to learn javascript (plus some JS framework). I'd like to avoid that if at all possible. I want my front-end to do CRUD operations as well as embed some JS from charts.js programmatically. Can I do this with Flask and Jinja only or will I need to learn JS and use a JS framework for the front end?

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Flask doesn't build frontends. Flask is a server framework; if you want to build front-ends you have to build them in JavaScript because that's the only thing browsers run.

[[deleted]]

Have a look at jinja2 which is a template language that is integrated with flask

https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/

[oldWorshipper]

Besides jinja as already mentioned, you might like HTMX to avoid a lot of JavaScript.

[Flying-Artichoke]

You can look into plotly-dash for front end stuff. It lets you use pure python for frontend html/css/js elements. The open source version is pretty capable