Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how to use Flask-Uploads to upload images for our user avatar and recipe cover. Since our maximum uploaded image size is 10 MB, this allows users to upload huge images, thereby slowing down the performance of the website. To address this performance issue, we introduced the concept of image resizing and compression. From here, we worked on developing the function using the Pillow package.

Apart from learning about new techniques regarding image manipulation, we also revisited things we learned in the previous chapters, such as updating the database schema using Flask-Migrate and displaying the URL of the uploaded image during deserialization using marshmallow's schema.

We have completed most of the key functionality of our Smilecook recipe sharing platform. In the next chapter, we will develop the recipe searching and pagination functions.