A trivial demonstration of using Tornado and Flask together.

Tornado is a very powerful and flexible asynchronous HTTP server with support for things like websockets. Meanwhile, Flask is a fantastic web microframework that makes writing web applications fun and easy. Flasknado! then demonstrates how to use Tornado to run a Flask WSGI app to exploit the strengths of both.

• $ sudo pip install virtualenv
• Clone repo
• $ cd flasknado
• $ virtualenv venv
• $ . venv/bin/activate
• $ pip install -r pipfile

• Note: Your shell must be in the venv environment to run.
• $ python flasknado.py
• http://localhost:8080
• Ctrl/Cmd + c to shut down server
• $ deactivate to leave virtualenv

• $ sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev
• $ sudo yum install gcc python-devel
• $ pip install -I --ignore-installed -r pipfile

Some links that got me started:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13163990/why-use-tornado-and-flask-together
• https://github.com/regadas/flask-tornado-websocket

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