Quick Minimal Application

How to setup a minimal Application

This is the most basic example, using the minimal code needed to setup a running application with F.A.B.

Will use sqlite for the database no need to install anything. Notice the SQLA class this is just a child class from flask.ext.SQLAlchemy that overrides the declarative base to F.A.B. You can use every configuration and method from flask extension except the model’s direct query.

I do advise using the skeleton application as described on the Installation

import os
from flask import Flask
from flask_appbuilder import SQLA, AppBuilder

# init Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

# Basic config with security for forms and session cookie
basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///' + os.path.join(basedir, 'app.db')
app.config['CSRF_ENABLED'] = True
app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'thisismyscretkey'

# Init SQLAlchemy
db = SQLA(app)
# Init F.A.B.
appbuilder = AppBuilder(app, db.session)

# Run the development server
app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080, debug=True)

If you run this, notice that your database will be created with two roles ‘Admin’ and ‘Public’, as well has all the security detailed permissions.

The default authentication method will be database, and you can initially login with ‘admin’/’general’. you can take a look at all your configuration options on Base Configuration

Take a look at this example on Github