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Introduction to Forms and Requests

Explore how to handle forms in Flask by using the request object to create functional login templates and routes. Learn to manage GET and POST requests and connect your forms to view functions for essential web app development.

Handling forms in Flask

The Flask package itself does not provide us a way to handle forms. There are two ways that developers deal with this:

  1. Via the request object
  2. Via the Flask-WTF extension

In this lesson, we will briefly discuss the first option.

Using the request object

Here, we will take the example of a simple login form. We ...