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I've been using all of them, and no, not at all. Flask-admin is a far cry from the django admin. It's also buggy sometimes.

Flask-SQLalchemy is not well integrated at all. E.G: try to play with it in the shell, the session management is annoying as hell.

As of flak-login, it doesn't have a tenth of the

Also you forgot: csrf handling, i18n, xss, click hijacking, cache backends, and so on. That's again, more plugins you have to select.

And that's a lot to configure, learn doc, then upgrade when the times come, on top of that.

All of them will, obviously, not be compatible with SQLA 2 next year, because the projects are not a whole, so it's going to be even more fun on the months to come.

I really think a beginner should not use that.




This is a good summary. Sometimes I too forget how much stuff Django provides out of the box for free. But now it is an old and boring tech, apparently. Oh well.




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