Python Flask with Heroku and TravisCI

I recently met with a few people from a non profit organization MAGIC, that I’m hoping I will be able to help out in some manner. They do a few major events throughout the year, as well as a cyber club that takes place at the local library. Most of their work is done in Python, so I figured I better familiarize myself a bit more with it.

It’s been a while since I’ve had much of a chance to do any blogging. We had another baby recently, and I’ve been super busy! Between the new baby, old baby, and work, I haven’t had much time or inspiration to do much of anything aside from stay alive.

MAGIC currently has (although from my understanding has not used) a python API for one of their events. I thought it would be a good opportunity to figure out how to build and host a python application using the same framework — flask.

Flask is described as:

Flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework. It is designed to make getting started quick and easy, with the ability to scale up to complex applications. It began as a simple wrapper around Werkzeug and Jinja and has become one of the most popular Python web application frameworks.

With the little bit of code I’ve looked at around Flask, it seems to solve a similar problem that MVC and/or Web API solve from the .net world. I’d like…