Web Frameworks

Question 1

Which web framework mentioned in this lesson is distributed as a single-file?

Answer 1

Bottle

Question 2

Which web framework was originally created and named as an April Fool’s joke?

Answer 2

Flask

Question 3

Which framework is one of the oldest Python micro-frameworks?

Answer 3

CherryPy

Question 4

Which web framework is based on Werkzeug and Jinja2?

Answer 4

Flask

Question 5

Which web framework follows the MTV architectural pattern?

Answer 5

Django

Question 6

Which web framework provides backward compatibility with Python 2.7?

Answer 6

Web2Py

Question 7

Which web framework, although comprised of a single file, is not part of the Python standard library?

Answer 7

Bottle

Question 8

Which web framework comes with its own web-based IDE?

Answer 8

Web2Py

Question 9

What was the name of the file you used to load the classic book data into the database in Lab 10?

Answer 9

book_import_data.json

Question 10

Which 2 Web Frameworks are the most commonly used according to a recent Stack Overflow survey?

Answer 10

Flask, Django

Question 11

What’s a web framework?

Answer 11

provides features with which you can build websites, so it does more than a simple web (HTTP) server. Contains features such as routing (URL to server function), templates (HTML with dynamic inclusions), debugging, and more.

Question 12

Additional functionality included in most web frameworks:

Answer 12

• HTTP protocol handling: handling HTTP verbs (GET, POST, etc)
• Authentication: who are you, what can you do? Route functions/classes, serve static files (HTML, CSS, JS, images)
• Establish a session: serve dynamic data (databases, services)
• Get & validate parameters: return values and HTTP status

Question 13

Django:

Answer 13

• emphasizes reusability and pluggability
• provides URL routing, database version control, schema migrations, authentication support, web server support, template engine and object-relational mapper (ORM)

Question 14

Flask:

Answer 14

• created by Armin Ronacher
• micro framework due to simple core
• no database abstract layer
• no form validation

Question 15

Web2Py:

Answer 15

• free, open source, scalable, full stack framework for rapid development
• no prereqs for installation and configuration
• comes with own web-based IDE with code editor, debugger, and one-click deployment
• Built-in security, Model-View-Controller architecture, support for internalization

Question 16

CherryPy:

Answer 16

• OO web framework resulting in smaller source code and less development time
• HTTP/1.1 compliant and can run multiple HTTP servers simultaneously
• Flexible plugin system
• Supports caching, encoding, authentication
• Extremely customizable, runs on Android, Python 3.5+, PyPy, and Jython

Question 17

Bottle:

Answer 17

• another micro-framework originally meant for building APIs
• implements everything in a single source file with no dependencies apart from the python standard library
• good for small web apps and prototyping
• good learning tool to get started with web dev
• lightweight: entire library distributed as a one-file module
• HTTP server, plug-in support and request dispatching