Using the Flask-Admin extension

Flask-Admin is an available extension that helps in the creation of admin interfaces for our application in a simpler and faster way. All the subsequent recipes in this chapter will focus on using and extending this extension.

Getting ready

First, we need to install the Flask-Admin extension:

$ pip install Flask-Admin

We will extend our application from the previous recipe and keep building on the same.

How to do it…

Adding a simple admin interface to any Flask application using the Flask-Admin extension is just a matter of a couple of statements.

Simply add the following lines to the application’s configuration in my_app/__init__.py:

from flask_admin import Admin
app = Flask(__name__)
# Add any other application configurations
admin = Admin(app)

You can also add your own views to this; this is as simple as adding a new class as a new view that inherits from the BaseView class, as shown in the following code block...