Flask Form Validation with Flask-WTF

Introduction Form validation is one of the most essential components of data entry in web applications. Users can make mistakes, some users are malicious. With input validation, we protect our app from bad data that affects business logic and malicious input meant to harm our systems Trying to process unvalidated user inputs can cause unexpected/unhandled bugs, if not a server crash. In this context, validating data means verifying input and checking if it meets certain expectations or criteria(s). Data validation […]

Serving Static Files in Python With Django, AWS S3 and WhiteNoise

Introduction Websites generally need additional files such as images, CSS, and JavaScript files that are necessary to render complete web pages in a browser. In small projects, we can work our way around by providing absolute paths to our resources or by writing inline CSS and JavaScript functions in the HTML files. This is not only against the best coding practices but it also gets tricky when we are handling bigger projects, especially with multiple applications. In Django, the files […]