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Python

Posted by askariabdurrahman
askariabdurrahman
1,610 Points

Can you use Django and Flask in the same application?

When making a application I would like to use features from both Flask and Django is it possible to use them together?

1 Answer

Myers Carpenter
Myers Carpenter
6,421 Points
Myers Carpenter
Myers Carpenter
6,421 Points

Hi!

Yes you can do that, you can merge the two at the WSGI level. You python web apps are layered something like this

Browser <-> Internet <-> Webserver <-> WSGI <-> Flask or Django

WSGI looks at the URL on the incoming requests and routes it to the right code. You could set up your Flask app to take care of all urls except for ones beginning with "/django". Then have the django app handle all "/django" requests.

You can read about it here:

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/patterns/appdispatch/

I would probably not do this myself. There a lot of issues to think about bridging between the two apps, like if a user is logged in or not.

If you tell me more about the two apps you want to meld perhaps I can give more specific advice.

Good Luck!

askariabdurrahman
askariabdurrahman
1,610 Points

Thanks for answering this really helped.