Advanced

Section 1: Course Preparations

Preparations for the course:

• Simplified authentication mechanism.
• Added type hinting.
• Unified code style.
• Changed all Resource methods to class methods (using @classmethod).

Section 2: Marshmallow Integration

Introducing marshmallow, flask-marshmallow, and marshmallow-sqlalchemy:

• Simplified request parsing, Model object creation, and JSON responses by defining Schema for each Resource.

Section 3: Email Verification

• Implemented user email verification process (using Mailgun).
• Used .env files to store sensitive data.
• Returned .html files in Flask-RESTful using make_response() and render_template().

Section 4: Optimized Email Verification

Optimized the email verification process:

• Added expiration for verification and resend functionality.
• Refactored project structure by treating confirmation as a resource.

Section 6: Secure Configuration and File Uploads

• Configured the application more securely (using from_object() and from_envvar()).
• Learned the relationships between WSGI, uwsgi, uWSGI, and Werkzeug.
• Introduced Flask-Uploads for handling file uploads, downloads, and deletions (using UploadSet, FileStorage).

Section 7: Database Version Control

• Introduced Flask-Migrate for database version control, including adding, deleting, and modifying details.
• Common commands include flask db init, flask db upgrade, flask db downgrade.

Section 8: OAuth Integration

• Learned OAuth third-party login flow (e.g., GitHub), including authentication, authorization, and obtaining access_token.
• Introduced Flask-OAuthlib.
• Used Flask's g to store access_token.
• Allowed third-party login users to set passwords.

Section 9: Payment Integration

• Integrated Stripe for third-party payment processing.
• Added an "Order" resource and implemented many-to-many relationships using Flask-SQLAlchemy.