Flask-CLI

About

Flask-CLI is a backport of Flask 1.0 new click integration to Flask 0.10. Do not install this package if you use Flask 1.0+.

Installation

Flask-CLI is on PyPI so all you need is:

pip install flask-cli

Usage

Initialize the extension like this:

from flask import Flask
from flask_cli import FlaskCLI
app = Flask('myapp')
FlaskCLI(app)

@app.cli.command()
def mycmd():
    click.echo("Test")

@app.shell_context_processor
def myctx():
    return {'myvar': 'value'}

Import from this library instead of flask.cli:

from flask_cli import FlaskGroup

Documentation

Documentation is readable at https://flask-cli.readthedocs.io/ or can be build using Sphinx:

pip install Sphinx
python setup.py build_sphinx

Testing

Running the test suite is as simple as:

python setup.py test