This repository is a clone of https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/flasky
Setting up a simple web app repo with a route to print "Hello, <user_name>!" (as per activity 2-1, 2-2)
Contexts are used to provide view functions with globally accessible objects that might be useful in the function. There are 4 context globals:
1 - request: this context stores information about the client's HTTP request, including headers, path, arguments, etc.
2 - session: this context stores session information, including values that persist between requests. This is in the form of a dictionary that stores key, value pairs that you may want to keep track of throughout different requests (like cookies).
3 - current_app: this context details the current active application instance that is handling the current request. This object can store app configurations like SECRET_KEY or to differentiate between testing/deployed app instances.
4 - g: this is a namespace object used to temporarily store resources/data when handling a request. This object is cleared after the request is processed.