Building Data-Driven Web Apps with Flask and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Course conclusion
Lecture: Routes
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Once we have our view methods in place
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and the templates that are going to show their html
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we have to figure out how our URLs
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map over to those view methods
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and that's where routing comes in.
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So we can simply refer to the static folder
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like /static/css/site.css
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and we don't have to do anything for that to be mapped.
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Flask will already do that for you
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but maybe we want to go to one of our view methods
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and say this one is going to
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respond to /
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and this other one is going to respond to /about.
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While these pages themselves
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what's actually shown in the html
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may be not be totally fixed and static
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the actual route will.
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We're not passing additional data
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along the route.
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But sometimes, you do want to
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like in our package, we want to show
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different packages, and that's actually part of the URL.
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So we could say
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we want to map /project/<package_name>
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and what we put in angle brackets here
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will become variables in the view method
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and that will be passed along
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whatever value gets put in there
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automatically by Flask.
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We can even have constraints.
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Remember we did our popular packages there?
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Is that if you do a /number, like /1, /7, whatever
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we want to go and actually call this popular route.
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However, if for some reason, you pass /about
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it's not going to match that, right?
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And that's because of the int: there in that screen.
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That's it. It's also a good idea to define these
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from more specific to more general
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so Flask is going to hit the first one that it knows about
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and just call that method, so you want to do that as well.
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by the order in which you register blueprints
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and things like that.
