How to Install Flask for an IDE??

I love Pycharm.

Depending on your version of PyCharm, community or pro, you will have differing levels of support for Flask and Django.

That being said, PyCharm community can still be used for running and writing Flask, you just need to point your project at a version of python that has Flask installed. Be it your main python install or a venv (virtual environment).

Without sounding like a sales person for PyCharm, I paid £6 for the pro version per month, its a subscription and you get all future versions. It really helped me write Flask quicker and the help for Jinja2 in templating was great.

Here is a link that will take you from 0 to hello world to app in no time. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUi3LkjNl0&list=PLQ176FUIyIUY5Ii58pzoZhS_3qIBL80nz&index=4)

The other great place to look for a REALLY easy time is cloud9. This is like treehouse workspaces but on steroids, its online all the time and is FREE! I like it because it is running in the real world and you can co-code on it. Its like multiplayer Halo but for doing work, if you need help then people can work with you.

If you want to run it on a REAL web server without setting anything and have online access to code like workspaces I would say give pythonanywhere a go.

1.Build the proof of concept in Pycharm 2.Put it on Cloud9 for further dev and testing. (purely as its online and REAL not in windows but running on server) 3.Go live on pythonanywhere, they have Amazon Web Service and you can have full access to your code online too.

Hope this helps you get off the ground, I have just been through getting my first Flask app up, I have tried Heroku, Digital Ocean. I know its more than you were looking for so my post is a little wrong but I thought best to give you what has taken me a week to figure out.