How to debug a Flask app

Question

How are you meant to debug errors in Flask? Print to the console? Flash messages to the page? Or is there a more powerful option available to figure out what\'s happening

Answer 1

with virtual env activate

export FLASK_DEBUG=true

you can configure

export FLASK_APP=app.py  # run.py
export FLASK_ENV = "development"

to start

flask run

the result

 * Environment: development
 * Debug mode: on
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
 * Restarting with stat
 * Debugger is active!
 * Debugger PIN: xxx-xxx-xxx

and if you change

export FLASK_DEBUG=false

 * Environment: development
 * Debug mode: off
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)