flask and gunicorn tutorial

The default development server for flask is not suited for production environments. Gunicorn is a simple WSGI client written in pure python. This repository serves as a simple example of connecting the two.

This answer on StackOverflow explains why something like Gunicorn is needed.

More on Gunicorn can be found here

Running flask server

export FLASK_APP="app.main:create_app"

flask run

Running gunicorn server

gunicorn -w 4 --reload -b localhost:5000 "app.main:create_app(testing=True)"

#flask #python #gunicorn