Creating Scripts
Explore how to write and implement Python scripts in Flask applications to automate tasks such as database setup and data validation. Understand using Flask's Click package for command management and proper script organization to maintain robust server-side APIs.
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Why do we need scripts
An application will often need supporting scripts to help it. For example, it may use links to other sites, and we want to make sure that those links are still valid. We could check them one by one, or we could write a script to run through the links, attempt to connect, and show which ones worked and which didn’t.
The most common scripts will be for database management. In this case, we’ll want to make sure that each database has the tables it needs. In some cases, we’ll want to ...