An important aspect of all good web applications is to give users feedback regarding various activities. For example, when a user creates a product and is redirected to the newly created product, then it is good practice to tell the user that the product has been created. In this recipe, we will see how flashing messages can be used as a good feedback mechanism for users.
Flashing messages for better user feedback
Getting ready
We will start by adding the flash messages' functionality to our existing catalog application. We also have to make sure that we add a secret key to the application, because the session depends on the secret key, and, in the absence of the secret key, the application will error out while flashing...
