[Flask] Questions from a new user of Flask

[Felix Louistisserand]

I already tried the debug mode, it doesn't solve my problem. Note that the problem is the persistence of datas even through reboots of the server, not only when actualizing.

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Ziirish" <ziirish at ziirish.info>
> À: "Felix Louistisserand" <felix.louistisserand at inria.fr>
> Cc: flask at python.org
> Envoyé: Mercredi 4 Janvier 2017 12:02:53
> Objet: Re: [Flask] Questions from a new user of Flask
> 
> Hello,
> 
> * On Wednesday, January 04, 2017 at 11:50 AM +0100, Felix Louistisserand
> <felix.louistisserand at inria.fr> wrote:
> > Happy new year !
> > 
> > I am currently having some issues in the development of a web application,
> > and it may be because of some misuse of Flask. If you could help me on
> > this it will be awesome !
> > 
> > As the application is still in development, the datas and the source code
> > changes quite frequently. I noticed that after changing the templates I
> > had to re-launch the server to make the changes occur. That was not a
> > problem at first. However as my projected grew it began to happen that
> > changes didn't took place, even after re-launching the server. I first
> > thought it was a cache problem but the issues carries on over different
> > web navigators (I tested Firefox and Chrome) and even in private
> > navigation of after manually cleaning the cache.
> > I discovered that this problem doesn't only concern templates but all the
> > static files too.
> > Is that a known problem ? I found no mention of it on the Internet but
> > maybe someone already encountered it here.
> > Of course it could have no link with Flask itself, but for now I have no
> > idea where else does it could come from.
> 
> If think the configuration setting you are looking for is
> TEMPLATES_AUTO_RELOAD.
> This option defaults to True when DEBUG mode is enabled:
> http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/quickstart/#debug-mode
> 
> > 
> > 
> > As a side question, I wonder what is the recommended method to pass
> > arguments to javascript from flask. Currently I am doing it with a
> > <script> field in my template, but it doesn't feel good. Is there a better
> > way to do that ?
> 
> I don't have an answer yet for this question. The best I found so far is:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10314800/flask-url-for-urls-in-javascript
> 
> But at the moment I'm stick with what you do (ie. managing my javascript code
> as
> a jinja template)
> 
> > 
> > Thank you for your attention,
> > 
> > Felix
>